FINGER PRINTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 129, 3 June 1920, Page 3

FINGER PRINTS.

AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION. • I>urin«; a discussion at the i Foil--senbv "murder trial regarumg the T eriocl over which the study of fingerprint science , had extended, Mr justice Chapman remarked , that I many years ago an anthropological bureau was established in Dunedin, and thousands of people left their Jihiger-printe there It. was, he added, at the Dimedm' Exhibition, j ( - ( nd war, established by Professor 11. j O. Forbes. . I Mr .Heed: Of course, he was investigating the matter. In the present state of science it is impossible to say whether the impressions vary or not. It is impossible for anybody to say that there is no variation from childhood to old age. Mr Tole : Finger j prints _ persist after death until decomposition sets in. '

His Honor: I do not know whether > expenmeats havo been tried of taking the? finger prints of (leopatrji. You vnay see her mummified hand in the Vatican Museum. . Mr Martin: As a -matter "of facb tho prints of mummies have been taken.

His Honor: Prints have also beon found on the handle of a stone axe found in a cave. and. dating back to stone- age. I. do nob know whether these have been submitted to fingerprint- experts.