TELL-TALE EARS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 20

TELL-TALE EARS

"Although it apparently is true that no two individuals have exactly the same finger-prints," saya Dr. E. E. Free's "Week's Science" (New York), one uncertainty in their use has been recognised. This is the ability of a criminal to leave a raise set of prints, made- 'Mrith rubber stamps, duplicating the fingers of some innocent individual. Practical difficulties arise, also from the impossibility of taking a set of fingerprints except by force or by the individual's' consent. The shape of the ear as a mark of identification is free from some of .these difficulties, and is said to be quite as infallible. No two human ears of exactly the same shape have ever been discovered. It is said that the shape of the ear cannot be changed surgically without leaving toll-tale scars. Ears can be studied, or even photographed, without the knowledge of the person who possesses them. Paris police, officers are reported now to be working 'out systems of classification and description, so that thousands1 or .millions ci ear 'photographs may be filed systoninticnlly, iim.l referord to at need. .Jvc •' is now done with fingerprints.1 ' j_