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TIL fingerprinting as a forensic science could have entered mainstream criminal investigation 50 years earlier than it did if Scotland Yard had heeded the advice of a small-village surgeon telling them to check for fingerprints in the throat-cut murder of Lord William Russell in May, 1840.

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