FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE
SELF HELP STORE ROBBERY [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHUIiCH, September 19. Fingerprints found on a piece of leadlight figured largely in the police case against Albert William Gauntlett (25), a labourer, charged to-day that on or about August 23 he broke and entered the Self-help Store at Linwood and committed theft. He pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supremo Court for trial, bail being refused. Meantime an officer of . the criminal registration branch, Wellington, gave evidence that the fingerprints on the glass were identical with those of the accused forwarded to him from Paparua. The police stated that the accused, when informed that the fingerprints corresponded, declared that it was a mistake; that ho had never been near the Linwood store.
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Evening Star, Issue 21520, 19 September 1933, Page 12
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125FINGERPRINT EVIDENCE Evening Star, Issue 21520, 19 September 1933, Page 12
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