Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . OUTSTKKTOllKl) AUMS. Left Foiil;-Ahm. APPLICATION OF BEKTILLON Length of Kight Ear. Length of Trunk. APPLICATION OF BERTILLON SYSTEM. ARREST AND IDENTIFICATION. 321 any two complete sets of measurements of different personsshould agree in every particular. Should it be found there-fore, after measuring an unknown prisoner, that the record ofmeasurements agrees precisely in every detail with any recordon file, it is practically certain that both sets
Our rival, the rascal : a faithful portrayal of the conflict between the criminals of this age and the defenders of society, the police . OUTSTKKTOllKl) AUMS. Left Foiil;-Ahm. APPLICATION OF BEKTILLON Length of Kight Ear. Length of Trunk. APPLICATION OF BERTILLON SYSTEM. ARREST AND IDENTIFICATION. 321 any two complete sets of measurements of different personsshould agree in every particular. Should it be found there-fore, after measuring an unknown prisoner, that the record ofmeasurements agrees precisely in every detail with any recordon file, it is practically certain that both sets are measurementsof the same person. If, then, the earlier record is one of aknown criminal, the unknown prisoner will be inevitably iden-tified with that criminal. This comparative process may bestyled a mathematical demonstration of identification. To facilitate the comparison and identification, every set ofmeasurements that is taken is recorded on a card, and this cardis filed in a cabinet divided into compartments, each of whichis subdivided. These separate compartments are used for theclassification of cards in a way approximately resembling thefiling of book cards in a pubHc library. In searchin
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