. Guide to finger-print identification [electronic resource]. uiths Committee sat, publishing afterwards a BlueBook on the Identification of Habitual Criminals. Their infor-mation on finger-prints was exceedingly crude and defective, andtheir conclusions were not very business-like. This year also thefinger-print system was tentatively adopted in the Bengal Presi-dency, and was associated with M. Bertillons system of measure-ments in Paris. 897.—The system became adopted throughout India by a resolution of the Governor General in —Lord Belpers Committee sat to deal with the finge
. Guide to finger-print identification [electronic resource]. uiths Committee sat, publishing afterwards a BlueBook on the Identification of Habitual Criminals. Their infor-mation on finger-prints was exceedingly crude and defective, andtheir conclusions were not very business-like. This year also thefinger-print system was tentatively adopted in the Bengal Presi-dency, and was associated with M. Bertillons system of measure-ments in Paris. 897.—The system became adopted throughout India by a resolution of the Governor General in —Lord Belpers Committee sat to deal with the finger-print system, recommending its official adoption in England. 902. —Mr. Brodricks Committee considered the same subject inregard to recruits, the Home Office being represented by anUnder-Secretary. This was on May 9th, when I was examined asan expert. In July of the same year the finger-print systembecame established as the English official method of criminalidentification. 903. —Criminal cases began to be proved in England by evidencefrom 45 CHAPTER V. PRESENTATION AND SCRUTINY OF CASES. The New Method. In the autumn of 1903 a burglary was committed near , or rather bootprints, were found to have been left near thescene which corresponded with those made by the shoes or boots oftwo of the men accused of the crime. In this trial, however, a ratherfresh kind of evidence was adduced which drew forth a loud protestfrom one of the prisoners. A finger-mark was found to have beenimprinted on a dark lantern which had plainly been used during therobbery. The three prisoners were old men, of 65, 68 and 70 yearsrespectively, and were all known to the police under different aliases—a pathetic fact for sociologists to consider. A report is given of thepolice proceedings in the Daily Mail of October 27th, 1903, fromwhich I shall now quote:—Detective-Sergeant Collins said thefinger-print found on a dark lantern left on the premises was identicalwith t
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