This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...apart at a glance. We will call the children A and B. Here are A's finger-marks, taken at the age of five months. Here they are again, taken at seven months. Tom started. They are alike, you see. Here are B's at five months, and also at seven months. They, too, exactly copy each other, but the patterns are quite different from A's, you observe. I shall refer to these again presently, but we will turn them face down, now. ': Here, thrown up ten sizes, are the natal auto graphs of the two persons who are here before you accused of murdering Judge Driscoll. I made these pantograph copies last night, and will so swear when I go upon the witness stand. I ask the jury to compare them with the finger-marks of the accused upon the window-panes, and tell the court if they are the same." He passed a powerful magnifying-glass to the foreman. One juryman after another took the cardboard and the glass and made the comparison. Then the foreman said to the judge: "Your honor, we are all agreed that they are identical." Wilson said to the foreman: "Please turn that cardboard face down, and take this one, and compare it searchingly by the magnifier, with the fatal signature upon the knife-handle, and report your finding to the court." Again the jury made minute examinations, and again reported: "We find them to be exactly identical, your honor." Wilson turned toward the counsel for the prosecution, and there was a clearly recognizable note of warning in his voice when he said: "May it please the court, the State has claimed, strenuously and persistently, that the blood-stained finger-prints upon that knife-handle were left there by the assassin of Judge Driscoll. You have heard us grant that claim, and welcome it." He turned to the jury: "Compare the...
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