TRACING CRIME BY FINGER-PRINTS
POLICE COLLECTION GROWS! -Steadily the police department has idled to its collection of finger-prints, and there are now 37,808 specimens m tho filing cupboards. . ■ n 1926. says the police report, the Anger impressions of 3,846 persons "'ere classified. In 39 cases of breakhV" and entering and one case of us: ault finger-prints left by tli© °fl»iders when committing the crimes **cre identified. All the offenders e t< ept three pleaded guilty, and these tluee were found guilty ori production the finger-’crJnt evidence in the Supreme Court. . ’he offico and garage of the Ben -htor-Bus Company, in Wellington, .as broken into, and a portion of one fager-print was found on a drawer :m tlit offico desk. From this the offender "as identified, and he admitted ten 0 ber offences. The same finger-print Wa * identified as that found on pr<;“ at Hamilton, and this led to bis fession of 31 burglaries in that tOVTL
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 13
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