The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21

it's flexible tubes. It makes thread like cutting as neat as a knife in but ter--and almost as quickly as you draw a chalk-mark when you bear on very | heavily. Science Captures Burglars. The workman operating this machine | declare it to be the ruin of fireproof safes. That it's inventor is becoming a millionaire while the safe-melter lies | in prison for having hit on 1t before I him seems to be one of the ironies of | fate. And, to increase the sadness, he was caught by no fault of his own. Do you see those tiny white smudg- es on the safe door?" said M. Bertillon. showing me photograph. Well, they | are photographs of the invisible-al- most. No one saw them. They are finger prints. Being composed of min ute quantities of grease and dirt of q dull surface. they contrast strongly in the photograph against the polished surface of the safe door. There is a right hand thumb there are three | fingers together" The prints of the safe- melter? l asked.
 Yes" he replied, but of themselves they would have been perfectly useless. He had never passed through our ser vice-we possessed no record of his finger prints. No. here are the true tell-tale prints. (And he showed me the enlarged prints of a thumb and some fingers.) These were found on | the edge of a window glass which had been cut by the burglars in making their entry to the premises. As they made the glass opaque they stood out | in distinct white spots in the original photograph of that wall" Triumph of BertiIIon. | It was extraordinary. He showed me a great chart composed of five types of finger-prints, with their subtypes | and as he pointed out their likenesses and unlikenesses I could not see, for I example, why a. given print should fall into the 'e" category than into the T category.
 | Mature did not makes these delicate Hoops and whorls especially for classl- | fication by four vowels." said MT. Der tiIlon, "yet the 'u' and O types are unmistakable. and as the e and T | types are always the reverse of each 1 other, and can never be mistaken TOT | .u' or 'o' types, the classification is sol lid. We take the thumb and first three fingers of the right hand.
 Suppose the marks on the window glass had been of the left handT l said.
 q would have been forced to look for
 others"
 Suppose the thumb or two fingers
 
 had been 1acking?'
 "A man seldom makes isolated finger
 marks. We regularly find the right hand thumb and first three fingers to- gether."
 | '.As on this window gIassT Yes; and the unknown maker or them became Monsieur Eeuo' for us at once. The thumb-print was of the 'e' tyne and the other fingers respectively, in order of the e. 'u' and 'o' types. We had, therefore, to look for Monsieur Eeuo'" | "But how, among 300,ooo cards?"
 we began with the 90,000 serious
 male adult lawbreakers, leaving out, for example, the mendacity or drunk
 sections"
 But even sO.Ooo seems like hay | stack"
 'aThe cards bear a projecting slip of paper on their upper edges. It contains the finger print name of the party.
 The employees have only to run eyes and
 fingers over those projecting slips"
 Criminal Picked from Hest.
 But there must be thousands of
 your 'Bessieurs Eeou."
 NO. How many permutations and
 arrang gements in fours can you make
 out of the letters e. f. O. and 'u?' "