FINGERPRINT SYSTEM
SUBJECT OF CONTROVERSY INFALLIBILITY QUESTIONED r LONDON, March 22 Some doubt has been thrown on the fingerprint system as providing an infallible clue to identity, says tlio Daily Mail. Jt follows the conviction with a sentence of two months' imprisonment of George Groves for theft at Bristol, though his fingerprints were the prosecution's only evidence. , Police experts say the system is J.UU per cent reliable, though Dr. Gait, the eminent pathologist, admits the possibility that there may he two persons in the world with identical fingerprints. British scientists do not credit the. American claim that fingerprints can be altered surgically, and doctors say the operation would be most painful, and would leave a permanent scar. A Scotland Yard Commissioner. Sir Trevor Bigham, says the classification of fingerprints is the most valuable contribution yet made to police work. European experts are similarly convinced of its reliability. Fingerprint identification suffices for a conviction 111 Germany. Dr. Looanl, famous rronch cnminnlogist says no case of error has ever beeTi discovered or ever will be,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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173FINGERPRINT SYSTEM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21765, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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