THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
FINGERPRINTS ALL DIFFERENT EVIDENCE IN BRITISH COURT CASE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 14. (Received October 15, at 12.35 p.m.) The statement that Scotland Yard research experts took the finger prints of the Dionne quintuplets and found them all different was made during a ease at the Somerset quarterly sessions in support of a prosecution argument concerning the reliability of linger print identification.
A man was sentenced to a year’s hard \labonr for theft of money from a gas meter. The evidence showed that a finger print on an empty gas container was similar to the left forefinger of the accused.
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Evening Star, Issue 22470, 15 October 1936, Page 14
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104THE DIONNE QUINTUPLETS Evening Star, Issue 22470, 15 October 1936, Page 14
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