YEAR-OLD FINGER PRINTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22540, 3 October 1936, Page 5 (Supplement)

YEAR-OLD FINGER PRINTS

EVIDENCE IN BURGLARY CHARGE Left' on a whisky bottle a year ago, fingerprints wero produced as evidence fit Birmingham recently. Stanley Talhot, aged 25, transport driver, was (charged with breaking into a biscuit factory at Ward End in July, 193.5, and stealing £llO, insurance stamps value 3.4 guineas, a wage packet containing {3os, and 150 packets of cigarettes. A detective told the Court that he ifound two finger prints on a whisky bottle which had been tnken from a cupboard and left in the office where two safes had been broken open. De-Jtective-Inspector Butler, of New Scotland Yard Finger Print Department, explained that he compared finger prints sent to him by the Birmingham police in July and August, and found that they corresponded. Talbot was also charged with being Concerned with George Edward Hoare, in the theft of a motor-car. It was stated that the car was driven away from outsido a garage, where it had been left by its owner. After formal evidenco of arrest, and Heniats by both men of stealing the car, Talbot was committed to the Quarter Sessions on charges of factory breaking and stealing the car. Talbot pleaded not guilty, and reserved his defence. Hoare, who was stated to bo a most violent man and an associate of thieves, having once been convicted of manslaughter, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for taking the car without the owner's consent.