Identifier: personalidentifi00wild
Title: Personal identification; methods for the identification of individuals, living or dead
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928 Wentworth, Bert, 1857- joint author
Subjects: Identification
Publisher: Boston, R. G. Badger
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School
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Figure 100. Photographic enlargement of a finger mark on a cashbox. Associated with the Deptford murder. (From Scotland Yard.)
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Figure 101. Photographic enlargement of the right thumb of AlfredStratton, who, with his brother, was hanged for the Deptford mur-der in 1905 in London. (From Scotland Yard.) Accidental Impressions and their Development 281 named ScheflFer: who confessed that he committed the crime. Thiswas one of the earhest cases on record of the discovery of the author of acrime by imprints left by him at the place where the crime was committed. P •v^ ■ 1 J ? Figure 102. Accidental impressions of the four dirty fingers of a lefthand on white woodwork. To bring all four of the finger prints into thephotograph the impression of the little finger was cut apart and alignedwith the others. (From Boston, Mass.) 2. The Mayor case. A murder was committed in the City of Lyons,and there was no clue except a finger mark on a broken glass bottle thatwas used in committing the murder. This was developed by M. EdmondLocard, the Director of the l*olice Laboratory there, and was found to
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