FINGER-PRINT CHEQUES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

FINGER-PRINT CHEQUES.

NEW RULE IN BANKS.

NEW YORK, June 1. "Your fingerprint, please," is the noypl demand now .' being made by clerks 'm increasing numbers m New York banks of ladies and gentlemen desirous of cashing cheques. The customer is given an ink pad and a card. On this he or she is directed to place three fingers and the first joint pf each thumb. The clerk, compares, the inipressions with records m the cashier's office and presents the\ customer with a little bottle of- spirits ,of turpentine and a piece of cotton wool- for the removal of the ink-stains. Only after this ordeal has been successfully accomplished may the customer receive cash for his or her cheque.

According to .the Evening- Post, the leading financial newspaper m New York, the new system of fingerprints' is rapidly growing iri favor with bankers who have been victimised by swindlers and forgers.' * ' . The Williamsburg Savings Bank was the first institution, to :adopt the system. Other banks, finding" that it .entailed much delay, appointed a special clerk, whoso duty it f& to persuade ladies to r'emovo their gloves and to submit ; to the inky operation.