Fingerprint met hard on crooks. It is possible, according to E.K. Thode, chief of the National Division of Identification and Information, to reconstruct a fingerprint with positive accuracy from a verbal description received by telephone or telegraph. Mr. Thode's division works under the jurisdicti
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