Grisly and gruesome: ‘Bush’ Thomspson vs the boffins
When a chocolate salesman was gunned down in 1913, forensic police used the newfangled technology of fingerprinting to crack the case. But the scallywag they had in their sights wouldn’t go down without a fight. Go to https://www.heraldsun.com.au/ibaw for more on this story.
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