"A PLAUSABLE ROGUE."

Shannon News, 26 September 1924, Page 4

"A PLAUSABLE ROGUE."

TEIiE-TitLE FINGER-PRINTS,

The value of finger-print evidence was exemplified at the Darlinghurst Court, Sydney, recently, when Lionel Allen, aged 2S- ; accountant!, who had previously denied convictions at Brisbane and Rabaul, came up for sentence.

Allen, who is already sewing sen- | fence of 18 months' imprisionment, pleaded guilty in: June to two charges \ , of embezzlement, but sentence was de. : f erred, so that his story of a blame- 1 less and a' distinguished military J ;career, could be tested. j

Constable Grant, of the finger-print ) department, said tha<t Allen was identical with a man who had been convicted in Brisbane in 1911 for theft. He .was not in possession of fingerprints from Rabaul.

In passing sentence of 18 months' imprisonment, the Judge said that in the police report Allen was described as "a plausible rogue." In regard to Allen's assertion that he had won decorations at tihe war, no military papers had ben produced, and the Judge was satisfied there was no truth in the story.