FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 9

FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE.

A SYSTEMATIC OFFENDER. CAUGHT AT HAMILTON. (By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. A series of crimes was sheeted home in the Hamilton Court to-day on the evidence of finger prints. In March of this year a number of Hamilton houses were broken into and articles stolen, and, from pieces of broken glass containing finger prints, which were recoverrd by Constable Sutton, the crimes were traced to a young married man named Henry Patrick Moore, with a long string of aliases,' whose finger prints were already in. the possession of the Criminal Investigation Department. When charged to-day with the offences, Moore, after hearing the evidence and inspecting enlarged photographs of the prints produced by the expert, SeniorSergeant Dinnie, pleaded guilty to all tbe charges. Moore, who is a young married man, is at present serving a term of three months' for vagrancy. His method of finding out whether people were at home was to call and to present to whoever came to the door a letter containing a pathetic appeal for odd jobs or assistance to enable him to live and to keep his wife and family, the letter also stating that, owing to an injury, he was deaf and dumb. In one house he entered, he took away the owner's new suit, ieaving his own old one hanging in the wardrobe, and also replacing a clean shirt in a drawer with his own dirty one. He was committed for sentence.