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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 14

In the Book of Job are words which would appear to forecast the discovery made so many centuries later, that the finger-prints of no two people in tlia world are alike. The words are in chapter 37; “He eealeth up the hand of every man, that all men. may know His work,” The text was quoted by a Scotland Yard official at an inquest at Portsmouth on the body of a man whose name and business had been unknown until prints of his fingers were sent to the fingerprint department in London, There they were identified, and the man’s name and dwelling were made known. In 30 years 300,000 'persons have thus been traced.