A SECOND CHARGE. | FINGER PRINTS,

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 147, 18 December 1907, Page 8

A SECOND CHARGE. | FINGER PRINTS,

A second charge was preferred ot breaking and entering the housS of Charles A. fit. G. Ilickson, Fitzherbertterraco, on the 3rd December, and stealing property valued at £35. Judith Mickson, residing at 32 lritz-herbert-terrace, with her father, Charles Albeit St. George Hickson, said she left home at n quarter to one p.m. The doors were locked. At 2.45 witness returned, and found the kitchen window open. The rooms upstairs were ransacked. She niisscd the various articles mentioned in the information. The value was about £35. The cash-box produced in couit was in the front bedroom when witness left the house. It only contained buttons and old bills. The box was found in the coal house. Arthur Edward Andrews, acting detective, stated that the cash-box found in the coal shed had finger prints upon it, and was handed over by witness to the finger print depaitment the same afternoon. Charles James Knight, principal warder of the Terrace Gaol, stated that he knew tho accused, and had taken his fingerprints on the form produced on the 3rd July, 1903. Edmund Walter Dinnie, of the finger print department, deposed that on the 3rd inst. he received tho cash-box sent by Detective Andrews, and noted four finger prints, ' which he photographed. Witness found two of the impressions identical with tho left thumb print of Frederick Cooper. The print marked No. " 4 on the cash-box was identical with the right index finger print of the accused. Points of similarity — 30 in all — had been noted. In his opinion thero was no doubt that the prints wero made by one and the same person. Alfred ii. Quatounan, acting detective, employed in the fingpr print branch, gave corroborative evidence. Detective Cnssclls deposed to charging the accused with the offence on the 12th December. Accused denied knowing where Fitzheibe.il- terrace was. Accused was in town on the 3rd December. The accused, having pleaded not guilty, was committed io the Supreme £k>uxt £ o_r txi/U.,