Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1913 — FINGER PRINT IS OUTDONE [ARTICLE]

FINGER PRINT IS OUTDONE

Accused Burglar Comes to Grief In France When Imprint of Tooth In Butter Is Viewed. Paris. —Even the finger-print method of obtaining evidence against criminals has been excelled by the police in establishing a burglar’s identity from the tooth marks which he left in a pat of butter. Pierre Bassaud, field on a charge of burglary, broke into his former employer’s premises at Montreull-Sous-Bois. Failing to discover any valuables, he went to the kitchen and had a feast. When arrested he denied the charge, but the police found the marks of his teeth, including one which was broken, exactly reproduced in a lump of butter into which he had probably bitten by mistake in the dark. Bassaud still protested his innocence, but when the magistrate before whom he was arraigned, sent for some butter and made the prisoner bite into it, the same irregular impression was obtained.