FINGER-PRINT PIONEER DEAD
Dr Henry Fnulda, pioneer of thei fingerprint system of identifying criminals, died a few weeks ago, at the age of BG, at his home, Wolstanton, near Stoke-on-Trent, Born at Beith, Ayrshire, Dr Faulds went to India as a medical missionary, and in 1873 to Tokio, as superintendent of a Hospital. It was there that his attention was called to finger-prints by' observing finger-prints on primitive Japanese pottery. His extensive research led him to be the greatest authority on the subject in the world. For many years Dr Faulds practised in the Potteries, and while he was at Hanely he was called in 1905 to give evidence for_ the defence against, Scotland Yard in the well-known “ Mask Murders” trial. Since then his first article on "Dactylography” as the then new science—in 1880—was called, he has published a great deal on the subject. He had lived in retirement for some rears before his death.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21022, 10 May 1930, Page 11
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