Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Using the Thumb-Mark. [ARTICLE]

Using the Thumb-Mark.

A very- remarkable-instance of the value of the “thumb-mark” method of identifying a criminal is recorded as having recently happened in Bengal. A prisoner had committed & murder wh&h seemed to leave no clew behind it whatever, but, in turning over the papers of his victim, he had by chance smudged an atlas with his thfimb. In Bengal they preserve an impression of the thumb of everyone who has been convicted of a crime, and the atlas was sent off inspection of experts, in the conviction of the criminal. . , w .inwin v