A FIHGER-PRINT TRIUMPH.
One of the most striking successes ill connection with the finger-print system of identification, since its adoption by the New South Wales Police Department, was achieved the other bay. At an early hour in the morning, the North Sydney police dis covered the dead body of a man lying on the rocks at folly point. A few resid ents of that locality had seen the man several times gathering oysters in the vicinity, and knew him as “Ted.” His identity, however was a mystery, which would probably liot have been solved, had not his finger-prints been taken whilethe body was lying in the morgue. A full set of impressions was obtained, and it was found that they were indcntical with those of Edward Jones, a man whose finger-prints were taken some years ago. This identifica tion otice again proves the efficacy of the system. It is t he first case on record (says the “Sydney Daily Telegraph”) in which a dead man’s identity has been proved by liis finger-prints."
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2
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172A FIHGER-PRINT TRIUMPH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2139, 14 March 1908, Page 2
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