It's what the French call the Bertillon system of identification, that's what it is. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop's Secret] Reference

"Those are metric photographs such as Bertillon of Paris takes," he explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poisoned Pen] Reference

"Those are metric photographs, such as Bertillon of Paris used to take," Craig explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

We must at last have found the cache of a real gentleman burglar such as Bertillon says exists only in books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

No two individuals have been found in whom all the Bertillon measurements agree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disease and Its Causes] Reference

As many as fifteen distinct varieties of the human nose have been catalogued by Bertillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference

The first such system was devised in 1883 by a Parisian police clerk named Alphonse Bertillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

But few are familiar with the operations of the Bertillon system, and the finger print system is as yet practically unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference

It consisted of a demonstration of the workings of the Bertillon and finger print systems for the identification of criminals.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference

Donnelly produced a copy of the Bertillon picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream Doctor] Reference

Don't you use the Bertillon system to measure the body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life] Reference

Bertillon pressed a bell, and asked the official who answered it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference

But a more scientific and accurate method has been devised by Bertillon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

Prétoire, and to hear patiently the explanation of the Bertillon system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Castle Of The Shadows] Reference

We have made some progress in reconstructing the crime, as Bertillon calls it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poisoned Pen] Reference

British government adopted fingerprinting as a supplement to Bertillon system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"Bertillon used to call this his mechanical burglar detector," continued Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

The Bertillon system of identification -- what is it but a summary of trivialities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Hewitt, Investigator] Reference

Burke reluctantly pulled out a Bertillon card from his pocket and laid it on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poisoned Pen] Reference

Bertillon measurements were not needed to identify us, nor photographs without mustaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Subterranean Brotherhood] Reference

I will leave a note about it for Bertillon himself, he mustn't miss the lobe of this ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall] Reference

Bertillon system; so his measurements could remain unaffected without the least harm to his plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference

Bertillon system of measurements, and he expressed his enthusiastic admiration of the French savant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] Reference

Then Bertillon arrives on the scene, and it seems he has obtained very distinct imprints of finger marks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference

I leaves her and I goes across into the Bertillon room, where the pictures are, and I looks up this here Antonio Terranova.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference

"I suppose," said Miss Tennant, "that he had heard of the Bertillon system, and was afraid of being tracked by his finger-marks.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It, and Other Stories] Reference

It was partly to combat such devices of criminals, that Bertillon invented his celebrated system of identification by measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference

But, for all that, Bertillon cannot be mistaken! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference

"'No,' says Bertillon, 'an' ye didn't ask me, ayther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen] Reference

Bertillon,” one fancies Utopia exclaiming, “are you?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Utopia] Reference

A Bertillon photograph, Richard Strauss and Czerny, a wedding and an autopsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Prefaces] Reference

"Put them both together in cell twenty-three and send for the Bertillon officers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"We'll know that definitely in the morning when you undergo the Bertillon measurements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Wall] Reference