THE PRINT OF A FINGER
In the Book of Job are words- which forecast the discovery made so many centuries later that the finger-prints of no two people in. the world are alike. The words are in chapter 37:-— "He sealeth up the hand W every man, that all men may know His work.' 1 The text was quoted by a Scotland Yard official at an inquest at1 Portsmouth on th» body of a man whose name and business had been, unknown' till prints of his fingers were sent to the finger-print department in London. There they were identified, and the man'a name and dwelling1 were made known. In thirty years 300,000 persons have thus been traced. Jiißiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiii!iii«i»iiiiiii>iiiii>iWii''i*|||illm.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 17, 19 July 1930, Page 20
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118THE PRINT OF A FINGER Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 17, 19 July 1930, Page 20
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