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RE: Today in History: Police try a new method of identifying people... fingerprints
The first fingerprinting filing system was actually introduced a decade earlier by Provincial Police of Buenos Aires in Argentina, thanks to one of its officials, Juan Vucetich a.k.a. Ivan Vučetić, Croatian immigrant who is often referenced as one of the most important forensic science pioneers and the father of modern fingerprinting.
oh yes, there was a lot of fingerprint business going on and it can be traced back to even 14th century Persia. The St. Louis think simply marked the beginning of a mass exodus from the Bertillon system, which had been used by police forces all over until the very unique case of Will and Will.