FINGER-PRINT SYSTEM.
"ONE UP ON SCOTLAND YARD." "The finger-print system was introduced to Scotland Yard about the beginning of the present century, was not it?"- asked Mr W. E. Leicester of a Anger-print expert in the Supreme Court at Wellington. "That is so," answered the witness. "It is the Henry system, improved by Galton, isn't it?" Witness: "It is the Henry system." "And do you know that up to quite recently experts at Scotland Yard have refused to identify a finger-print unless there are at least ten points of similarity?" "Well, we will not take less than nine," replied the witness. "So as far as the number of points of similarity go, you are one up on Scotland Yard," cornmenLed counsel, amidst laughter. "Possibly the climate may account for it, Mr Leicester,' said His Honor Mr Justice MacGregor. Later a second witness from the criminal registration branch said that the finger-prints in the case had been brought to him, and that, seeing that some of them were in sequence, he had searched through the records, containing the prints of over 4 0,000 persons, and within one hour had discovered that the prints resembled those of one of the accused man.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17243, 31 October 1927, Page 5
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