FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE.
Wellington, Yesterday. The trial of Frank Patrick Fleetwood, charged with the theft of silver trophies and a beycle, the property of the of the Wellesley Club, was continued at the (Supreme Court. The caretaker noticed that a door had been opened, the place ransacked and the trophies removed. One of the glasses covering the trophies was marked with finger prints. On an examination of the prints by the expert. Mr. Dinnie, it was found they tallied with those of Fleetwood, whose linger prints had been taken some time before, when he had been convicted of being a stowaway. It was found' Fleetwod had been a close companion of Bryant, a former steward of the club, and both were arrested. Bryant admitted his guilt and the trophies had been recover- " ed from the Harbour. Expert evidence was that the prints were those of Fleetwood but Bryant denied Fleetwood was coiljfc, corned in the theft. Fleetwood’was found guilty and remanded for sen- 'y..„ teuce.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2994, 4 February 1926, Page 2
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164FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2994, 4 February 1926, Page 2
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