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HISTORY: The First Fingerprints Used in US Court

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

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🗓️ 2 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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HISTORY: The First Fingerprints Used in US Court

This is the history behind the first fingerprints used as evidence in US court.

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At just after 2 a.m. on September 19, 1910, a man broke into a home on West 104th Street in Chicago, Illinois. It's believed that the man was planning to burglarize the home, but when he found 13-year-old Florence Hiller sleeping in one

0:46.9

of the bedrooms, he must have changed his plan. When Florence awoke and saw the man, she screamed

0:53.4

as the man pushed up her nightgown and started

0:55.7

touching her. The screams alerted her parents, Clarence and Mary Hiller, and as Clarence ran down

1:02.3

the hall to investigate, he ran into the man and they fought. The intruder pulled out a gun

1:08.2

and shot Clarence twice, killing him.

1:12.6

Then he fled the scene.

1:18.8

The neighbors were woken up by the commotion, and John Pickens went to the Hiller home to help.

1:24.3

He arrived at the same time as his son, Oliver Pickens, who had been walking home from a friend's house at the time.

1:26.4

Officer Floyd Beardsley was on patrol in the area

1:29.5

when he heard screams and was looking for the source when he found John and Oliver approaching

1:34.3

the hiller home. They observed the body of Clarence and when the officer went upstairs to get a sheet

1:40.2

to cover the body, he found sand on the foot of Florence's bed.

1:45.1

At the same time, four Chicago police officers had ended their shift and were sitting on a bench

1:51.2

waiting for a streetcar. While they waited, a man ran onto the street with a revolver in his hand.

1:58.7

They found a man suspicious, and since it was 1910, the fact that the man

2:02.6

was black likely heightened that suspicion, but they also had a lot to be suspicious of. The man

2:09.1

was sweating, had blood on him, and the gun had recently been fired. He said he had just been

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