Ageless lines help put the finger on countless crooks

By Saffron Howden
Updated November 9 2012 - 9:25pm, first published June 17 2011 - 3:15pm
History of prints... police examination of fingerprints.
History of prints... police examination of fingerprints.
A 1788 anatomy textbook showing fingerprints.
A 1788 anatomy textbook showing fingerprints.

TWO days before Christmas in 1903, a Frenchman trying to rob a house in Potts Point made history.

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