EVADING THE LAW
FINGER-PRINT GRAFTING
LONDON, 7th December. The “Daily Express” lias* interviewed a finger-print expert, an ex-convict, who claims to be able to alter markings by surgical grafting and other devices in such a way that it is impossible for them to be traced. He was treated 20 years ago, and Scotland Yard records were never identified as his. “I paid a ‘down-and-out’ 205,” he . said, “to give me the flesh of his finger tip, which a Canadian doctor grafted on my finger leaving no mark.” He / admitted that the outstanding practitioner of the craft of finger doctoring was not himself, but a Frenchman, whom he first met while travelling with a party of Australians, working the confidence trick. The Frenchman got “down-and-out’s” spare finger tips for grafting, but he also treated criminals’ fingers with acids so that the loops and markings were permanently distorted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 2
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