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MYSTERY
Double
Trouble
Nature created a mystery that
baffled prison authorities; its
solution helped speed a vital
tool of modern criminology
By WILLIAM T. BRANNON
The identification officer at Leavenworth
(Kans.) Federal Penitentiary stared at
the prisoner a moment, then looked quizzi
cally at the guard.
"Yes?" he inquired.
"New prisoner," the guard said. "I
brought him so you can take measurements
and pictures."
"But I've already taken care of that"
"You have?" The guard looked surprised.'
"When?"
"Almost two years ago."
"Must be some mistake. This man has only
been in two days." He glanced at the com
mittal papers. "It says right here it's his
first offense."
"Well, that's" not right I distinctly re
member photographing him. You're sure he's
been here only two days?"
"Yes. I locked him in the cell myself."
The identification officer turned to the
prisoner. "What happened? Did you escape
and get sent back for something else?"
"I've never been here before," the pris
oner said. "You've got me mixed up with
somebody else. This is my first offense."
The officer shook his head. "All right
stand here."
He made the usual full-face and profile
shots, then took various measurements.
"What's your name?"
"George Moss."
"Same as it was last time!" the officer ex
claimed. "You're doing life for murder."
The guard spoke up: "The papers say five
years for larceny." - .
Angry now, the officer strode to the files
and dug out a record card and a picture,
which he held in front of the prisoner. "Do
you deny that's you?"
"It sure looks like me," the prisoner ad
mitted. "But it can't be because I was never
here before."
The officer laid the record beside the one
he had just completed. "Look at these."
. The prisoner did. They were identical, ex
cept that the offense on one was murder, on
the other larceny, and the two crimes had
been committed in widely separated places.
ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN HUEHNERGARTH
"Do you still deny you were here before?"
the officer demanded. :
"Yes. The picture looks like me and the
measurements are the same as mine. But I
wasn't here. I don't know how it happened."
Impatiently, the identification officer sent
for the warden, who glanced at the prisoner,
then looked at the guard.
"Why have you brought Moss here?" the
warden asked.
"This is a new prisoner, sir. Just came in
two days ago."
"That's-a mistake. This man has been here
almost two years."
The prisoner squirmed. "Somebody's
wrong," he said. "Maybe there's a fellow
that looks like me. Maybe he's still here."
"We'll see." The warden summoned a
guard to find out if Moss, the lifer, was still
in his cell.
He returned in a few minutes. With him
was a prisoner who might have been the oth
er's twin.
For several moments, they stared at each
other in astonishment It was as if each
was looking in a mirror.
Then they compared notes. They had
never met before, had not lived in the same
section of the country, and were not related.
Having two identical prisoners posed a se
rious problem for the warden. There was
always the chance of a mix-up, the danger
that the lifer might be freed at the expira
tion of the other's five-year term.
Each man was photographed and meas
ured again. There were only fractional dif
ferences between them.
Then they were fingerprinted. Despite
their close resemblance in all other respects,
their fingerprints were entirely different
Their identities were definitely established.
This event took place in August, 1903.
Fingerprinting was a new art, and it had not
been widely accepted.
But the incident of the identical inmates
was one of several unusual cases that led
to acceptance of fingerprints as the only
infallible means of identification.
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Family Weekly, March 13, I960