CLEVER TRACING JOB.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 243, 19 January 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

CLEVER TRACING JOB.

IDENTIFIED BY A G ILI) BAR IX THE JAW.

The task of identifying dotd Jiocl'o-; I 3 very often ex:rer.e\ difficult. «/t course, finjro-i- prints ml p!ioto«rapiis TnaKft identification fair!,- easy, an I laundry marks ar-; a great help, Init very often the poi'ce !iai; nmeh les- t'i ivol ,'c upon. Tho Now York recently found a r.iale skeleton tilly elo'l e;l in tho riv-r. They succeeded 111 identifying jt "by means of a gdd 'jridi'e in the upper jaw. They tivcofl the uenti-t v.ii.: iia ! made the hrid:;e and lie <l.l ve the n the ehart cf the mouth whi'h corresponded with the eeth ''t the skeleton. They then found a vat< hman who said that. the ni;an wr.? l.nnwji is "Sam." In tho eoi.rse .f convi rsatioi ho mentioned t! 1• 11 "Sam'" la l an vnlargod great t.-.e-ioin': on his left foot and very ol t >ll wo'e -Tioes with -i 1io! • cut over tlie l.ij? jo. 111 and a patc'i •so.ved over th° hole. At th;' niortuarv the -.ho-' w;r fmiu! jest as tho watchman had describe! it. Then the deceased m. n's 1-!-'<:■ v. a< traced and fho iiiei.ti'ie 1 her hrolh T I>y means of a liandkei'-hief fund t ]ii- pocket. It was afterwards proied Mvtt the man fell in the river whrn he was vln.n'i and that he li .d '>een in the -irate" for ahout two yeans' This is one of the clevce-t piee \s •of identifying work of recent yerv-«.