Word: fingerprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...because they had retained the image of the last person he saw before his death; the G-man had brought along bloodhounds which had already tracked down a suspect. In reality, the FBI man started out much less spectacularly, going over the locked church with a magnifying glass and fingerprint powder. When he had finished, he ordered the church unlocked. Glumly, Padre Carlos Galves rounded up a group of helpers, went into the basilica to prepare for the next day's Mass...
Cashier Lloyd loosed his bonds in a few minutes and called Boston police. The first officers arrived in two minutes. The clues were thin-one of the robbers' caps, the rope used to tie the clerks, a fingerprint on a patch of adhesive tape. The holdup men had casually walked through five doorways, at least three of them locked and one supposedly guarded by a watchman behind bulletproofed windows. (It was his night off, police explained later.) The robbers were either very lucky, or had inside help, or both...