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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14038, 22 April 1920, Page 8

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Criminal identification, tin-0 is attracting the lifted police officials and criniinokj'gis result of a! series of experiment ha ve been lickl at polico lielidi in San Francisco'. 1 'llio cvolal criminal identification, and the{ cinema is to play in its perfq credited to Thomas H. luce, #!| many experiments at his study posed the modern methods to lW who promptly agreed to test I Mr luce is nojv the guest.of;t| ■ department, and is jMirsonally,q ing the direction of tin; expM Under the Ince system, potaj tectives' will not bo -required'; an arrest with only a still jikt basis of apprehension. The present plan, wliereb) ■> or criminal is escorted .to-tin gallery and still pictures mid; incuts recorded, lias'been .fount impractical in 'so tar US; the. traits or characteristics oft® arc not recorded, and teetives have found it veff| recognise a suspect from tIiCT gained by a study ol it' Still graph. Officials point out thatalw§ ably a man is apprehended ol of some physical characU-W l ' to liini alone. A slight liuipj: of the body, the poise facial contortions, individiM..; habit's arc relied on lii.uiilj, ture, and this is where are lo be of great \ ice Bert il lon system of cranial :j measurements is of definite ai ing ai man's identity after 111 captured, the system is of <jl value in seeding a suspect.,,' Under the Thomas Id, modern methods will •be;-® transuiitting facts gitive. Presuinablv ,11 si® made by obtaining motion J the present rogues' gm L O man convicted for ci• screened under natural.,.®" 1 !; the film kept for relcreMM : Within three liquid •'• ul M have learned the identity.sMß wanted, his animatf.'d pifflM projected on the screen of tre in the rainmunilyj. later prints ol the picf l ,■ possession of police hi -idi) cities for screening ;W0« and detectives throng try and. if lieccssan, i« : «* The co-operation n '-'j JH tres will be, enlisted. .m« M asked to |iroj««Jt; pu-W.* 'or woman wanted bciqic JW regularly in attendant*. . as an added, incentives that hundreds of tho will be volant lor.thMM San Francisco carry cance in that many nog«| an <• nn 1 melogi-sti> a ' l m the has coni-ribi'^'d