YEAR-OLD FINGER PRINTS

Evening Star, Issue 22465, 9 October 1936, Page 2

YEAR-OLD FINGER PRINTS

EVIDENCE IN BURGLARY CHARGE Left on a whisky bottle a year ago, fingerprints were produced as evidence at Birmingham recently. Stanley Talbot, aged 25, transport driver, was charged with breaking into a biscuit factory at Ward End in July, 1935, and stealing £llO, insurance stamps value Mgs, a wage packet containing Jss, and 150 packets of cigarettes. A detective told the court that ho found two fingerprints on a whisky bottle which had been taken from a cupboard and left in the office where two safes had been broken open. De-tective-inspector Butler, of Xow Scotland Yard Einger Print Department, exjdainod 1 that be compared fingerprints sent to him by the Birmingham police in July and August, and found that they corresponded. Talbot was aVci charged with being concerned with George Edward Hoaro in the theft of a motor ear. It was stated that the ear was driven away from outside a garage, where it had been left by its owner. After formal evidence of arrest, and denials by both men of stealing the ear, Talbot was committed to tho Quarter Sessions on charges of factory breaking and stealing the car. Talbot pleaded not guilty and reserved his defence. Hoaro, who was stated to be a most violent man and an associate of thieves, having once been convicted of manslaughter, was sen loured to s'x weeks’ hard labour for taking tho ear without the owner’s consent.