British Police To Make House-To-House Finger-Print Hunt
(Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent) Recd. 6.40 p.m. London, May 25 The biggest mass finger-print-ing in the history of criminal investigations in Britain will be carried out in Queen’s Park, a suburb of Blackburn, where the police will call at all houses and take impressions of the left forefinger and thumb of all male residents over 16 years of age. It. is estimated that 30,000 men will have their finger-prints taken in the course of this investigation. The police are endeavouring to track down the killer of a four-year-old girl patient at Blackburn Hospital, who was taken from her bed on the night of May 14 and whose body later was found in the hospital grounds. This murder is now believed to be connected with two other child murders, one in Blackburn and one in London. The police have circulated a description of a voting man who. it is believed, may be able to throw light on the crimes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 May 1948, Page 5
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