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- Thomas Jennings
- Suspect- Thomas Jennings Victims- Clarence D. Hiller
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- - a fingerprint from a freshly painted railing that he used to hoist himself through a window at the Hiller house
- - at 2 a.m. on the night of September 19, 1910, Clarence Hiller woke to the screams of his wife and daughter in their home at 1837 West 104th Street in Chicago, illinois
- - on the night of September 19, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois
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- Links- https://www.illinoiscourts.gov/News/999/Illinois-Supreme-Court-History-Fingerprints/news-detail/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/first-case-where-fingerprints-were-used-evidence-180970883/
- After a spate of robberies, residents of this South Side neighborhood were already on edge. Hiller, a railroad clerk, raced to confront the intruder. In the ensuing scuffle, the two men fell down the staircase. His daughter, Clarice, later recalled hearing three shots, followed by her mother screaming upstairs. Neighbors came running but the man had fled the home, leaving a dying Hiller by his front door
- The court found Jennings guilty and sentenced him to death. Jennings appealed the case to the Illinois Supreme Court in People v. Jennings, 252 Ill. 534 (1911). One of the reasons for appeal was that fingerprint evidence was not admissible under the common law rules of evidence and there was no statute authorizing its admissibility
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