AUTOMOBILE IDENTIFICATION
A book <I < *:i 1i ng ex h.a list ivolv Avitli { ufomobi lc idea: i I ion h:is been pub | iislied by .ioliii !•’. Brennan. instructor j. in ;ui!omobi’e identi(lcation in the police schools oi: New York. The. book i embodies Hie method:-! of identification. 1 used by him 'since 1910 and regularly taught in his classes. It is to be used as a text book in police instruction; it makes equally available to the general j ui 1)1 it- the mentis of identification of [ automobiles. Sergeant Brennan has more than once I earned olticial commendation and finan-j ria! reward for his clever work in this I held. An example of his work is the] location of a car that had smashed a j ho ire-buggy ami driven off without be ‘ ing seen. Small fragments left behind enabled him to deride' 'that the car in tjuestion laid Sin. headlights of certain type. bin. side lights of another specific type., and -tin. tyres. This was sufficient to enable him to know (lie make of Ihe guilty ear. and the car followed from other details. An indictment for manslaughter resulted.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 16
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189AUTOMOBILE IDENTIFICATION Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 February 1926, Page 16
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