SUPREME COURT
AUCKLAND SESSIONS. VALUE OF .FINGER PRINT EVIDENCE. [Per Press Association] , AUCKLAND. Feb. 4. , In the Supreme Court, Joseph Sturge Redfern, on two charges of incest, was ! acquitted. The defence was a general denial of the allegations, and also that I two of accused’s daughters had given evidence because of hatred of their I father Evidence was offered attacking the character of the girls. Joseph Roy O ’Shea, aged 29, was j found guilty of assaulting Leslie Titch- | ener and robbing him of £2O. Fingerprint evidence by Senior-Sergeant I Dinnie, Wellington, played an import- ' ant part in the case. Senior-Sergeant , Dinnie said he found fifteen points of i similarity between the fingerprint i found on certain bottles and the certified print made by the middle finger j of accused’s right hand. There were ( thirty billion chances to one against i the prints being from any other finger than that of accused. Justice Stringer ! remarked that the value of fingerprint I evidence was now fairly established, nnd in all civilised countries it was regarded as of the utmost possible value, accused was remanded for sentence.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19505, 5 February 1926, Page 7
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