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FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1929.

LIFE SAVING

EXAMINATIONS BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY

نید.

AWARDS RECOMMENDED

in

of order

merit:--

of the

FINGER-PRINTS

VIEWS OF REGISTRAR OF CRIMINALS

POPULAR FALLACIES

of hours.

THE CHINA MAIL,

[scrutinise all these, as the print Iwould be one of the three types mentioned above and it would to therefore be only necessary examine prints of that type. As the subdivisions into varieties, however, depend very much on the being fully-roiled and print

con- not usually

CHINA & RUSSIA

SHADOWS. BEFORE.

IN "CHINA MAIL"

JAPAN WATCHES EVENTS IN COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

MANCHURIA

RECOVERY OF RAILWAY

Tokyo Yesterday. While Japanese comment on the

Mr. GB. Linford, Registrar of Two examinations were old at

on Criminals, S. and F.M.S., has criminals are Lyedmaun, the R.A. beach,

under the written a candid article in the siderate enough to leave fully-roll-intest Chinese coup at Harbin, against Wednesday, July 3.

The Malayan Police Magazine in which ed impressions behind them, one the Soviet is withheld pending receipt official despatches, official circles auspices of the abive sozing.

for he dispel few popular fallacies might quite possibly find oneself of following recommendatioks awards have been forwarded to the regarding finger prints and their compelled to examine every print admit that they are watching develop uses and explains what exactly can of that type, unassisted by sub-ments closely and intimate that it is Chief Executive in London:--

For the Award of Merit Silver and cannot be done with them. He divisions at a rough estimate feared that if the Chinese recover the also points out that, the study of some 700,000 impressions. Thus, Chinese Eastern Railway they will then Medal). Gunners W. Pollard, A. Emery, Wanger prints is a simple matter and useful as is a finger-print bureau turn their attention to the recovery of that elesibration under the Conlay for laying bare the criminal his-the (Japanese owned) Southern Man-

churian Railway. Fogarty, and J. Gray, all

The conference between Dr. C. T. use at all for dealing with that wang (Foreign Minister) and General 12th Heavy Battery, R.A. For the system can be taught in a couple tory of accused persons, it is of no Proficiency Certificate and Bronze "The expert gazed searchingly at ubiquitous finger-print left on the Chang Hsuch-liang on diplomatic pro- There is blems in Manchuria is also attracting Medallion L/Bdr. A. Worthington the impression for a minute or so, scene of the crime. of the 31st Heavy Battery, and then a whorl he murmured a nothing for it but to wait for the keen attention here, as there are re- Gunner T. Dryden of the 20th whorl with two deltas." This, or police to arrest suspected persons ported to be indications that the salt Heavy Battery, R.A.

something to this effect, is an ex and compare it with their finger-will be unfavourable to Japan. Reuter.

Wholesale Dismissals There are

al present several

tract from a work of fiction I read prints. Tame and disappointing, I

Harbin, Yesterday. Classes in the Colony training for recently. If the expert had lock-admit, when one has been taught to

The Soviet General Manager, Asaist- the examinations conducted by the ed out of the window and remark- believe that such finger-prints are

ed that he saw coming down the almost invariably traced within a ant General Manager and all Soviet street "a maa-a man with two few moments by a keen young, ex-heads of departments, and a hundred of Bill Smith, the others in the Chinese Eastern Railway (a joint Chinese and Russian concern) legs" his remark would have been pert as those

For all "Sidney smasher," wanted on 3 just about as sensible.

Fan Tsi-kuang has been appointed by whorls have two deltas excepting continents for a number of offences were dismissed to-day.

the Chinese to take charge of the Jan exceedingly rare specimen ranging from murder to bigamy.

Above I referred to this fallacy whole railway administration. →→ Reu- (Continued from Page 1.)

which has three.

as a partial fallacy. This is 30 ter. I is nonsense of this sort, so Pier and the position of the inter-frequent in the modern detective because a single finger-print fla section of the contre line of Nathan story, that is responsible for the certainly does allow for the sensa- Road in the Kowloon sea-front rather hazy ideas held by the man- tional developments would commence on July 4. These in-the-street borings have been completed,

R.L.S.S.

WATER SUPPLY

Was

He was an en-

there

Social Functions • To-day Hong Kong Hotel and Dance, Peninsula Hotel Dinner 8.30 p.: Repulse Bay Hotel Din- ner Dance.

Entertainments To-day Cabaret Entertainment Hong Kong Hotel Root Garden,

July 18-Cabaret Entertainment. Repulse Bay Hotel.

July 15 Cabaret Entertainment, Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.

To-day Queen's Theatre; "The Foreign Legion."

To-day- World Theatre; “Ramons.”.

To-day Star Theatre; Square Crooks."

To-day - Majestic Theatre; "The Way of All Flesh."

Miscellaneous

To-day--Investiture, University,

p.m.

To-morrow-C.C.C. Radio Night.

Lammert's Auctions

To-day At Sales Room, Postage Stamps. 5.15 p.m.

July 17--At Sales Room, house- hold furniture, 2.30 p.m.

Home Mail To-morrow-Outward via Mar- (Hakone Maru"), 9.80

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA.

S an

Kinta unofficial

$0 popular appealed, is a first offender or a the subject of with writers of detective stories, recidivist, is no small matter, but seilles oa finger-prints. Although it is some but by no means to the extent they the difficulty of the job lies no more a.m. Outside Supplies

thirty years since the fall value of make out, for a single finger-print in the classification and search of

realised and

file (a comparatively new system finger-prints than does the diffi Coupling up all tanks between finger-prints Western Market and Douglas Police Forces all ever the world of classification J. A. Larsen's culty of managing a bank lie in hook on the subject was published adding up long columns of figures. to establish Finger- Wharf has been commenced and is began

apin 1924-whereby the ten digits of The study of finger-prints is a Burcaux. it would expected to be completed by on print

criminal's hands are filed simple matter. Any person with day. Pumping can then be done pear to be only recently that fic-a from the "Fu Kwong" at Douglas tion writers "discovered" frger- separately) is not to be found in average intelligence can be taught prints, and now no detective story many bureaux and is of so com- enough in a couple of hours to sheet of finger-prints Wherf to all these tanks.

plicated a nature that-at Scotland classify a The "Fu Kwong" and H.M. tag is complete. without the fingerprint Yard at any rate-it is confined to under the Conlay System, go to the

garnished with a fow

Mr. F. J. Shepherd, of Batu "Cherub" are still bringing sap-touch,

technical phrases and explanations a select band of well-known house correct file in a bureau of over

rejoined the plies from the West River.

breakers only.

200,000 finger-print slips and, if Gajah, has The following craft are now in which are, as often as not, incor-,

Forging Finger Prints

an identical copy thereon, Sanitary Board

Of member. commission by the Water Control frect. The finger-print expert en-

It is doubtful whether much will trace it within a few minutes. tered briskly," writes W. Master- Office:

Thirteen wooden Fighters, three of man in The Green Toad, "his hands be effected in the future in the course practice makes him quicker

Dr. H. R. Dive, acting Senior matter of connecting criminals and enables him to reject at a 100 tons and ten of 125. fous capa-full of papers.

thusiast at his work and would with their crimes by the finger-glance those slips which are now Medical Officer, Selangor, and Mrs. Dive are going on leave early in Tug "Perla."

have kept one for hours explaining Prints they leave behind, at any identical.

In the Malayan bureau 3 new September. Motor laureh Jadestone" for Har the loops and whorls of the human breaker is an expert at his job. clerk is given a week in which to

rate in a country where the house-

After that he is given Mr. H. W. Morgan,, of Messrs. hand, affirming-and experience proved this to be true--that no two For one thing he knows the value practise.

Ltd., S.S. "Vermont" 450 capacity, and hands ever show the sarac combina-of finger-prints to the Police and his daily share of fuger-print slipa Harrisons, Barker and Co., m.v. "Fu Kwong," 1,009 cupavity. tion"a totally incorrect affirma-wears gloves, and for another there to search, his work of course being Kuala Lumpur, is going on leave

is no doubt that finger-prints can checked, and after a month he is be forged and although it is not not expected to miss one, i.e., fail a housebreaker to identify a print he is searching H.M. tag Cherub" 140 tons capa- If one were to believe all that is very likely that

written on the subject of finger- would deliberately obtain à forged with an identical copy on the files.

No Prints Alike to this feet prints in

impression of another person detective stories one

After all, there are only six are being considered.

would. I think, come to the conclu-known to be an habitual criminal The total amount of watersion, firstly, that any one finger- and therefore easily suspect, and varieties. There is no reason why illness. handled by the Water Control print can be traced in a very short plant it in a conspicuous place at it should take any length of time

His Excellency the High Com- Office for the week ended July 7time and the complete history of the scene of his crime, yet the very to recognise these or, having entered was 13.700 tons or 3,068,000 gal-the owner thereof laid bare and, fact that a forgery is possible up the classification on the slip, to go missioner of the F.M.S., Sir Hugh lons, all of which was placed in secondly, that years of practice are might easily tend to put all juries to the correct file-a feat no more Clifford, will probably pay a visit dead against any such evidence. difficult than turning up a word in to Ipoh at an early date on his way the tanks along the Praya. required before one can become an As far as is known, the forging of a dictionary. Having got to the through to the North. Sources し supply were as "expert" on finger-prints. The follow:-

former is a partial and the latter finger-prints has so far only been correct file it does not need a very affected by law-abiding persons quick eye to recognise which slips a complete fallacy.

Just a little Let us take the former point first, whose pleasure it is to experiment are not identical.

bour work.

Thren steel lighters of 800 tona, and two of 250 tons enparity.

Water boats, three in number, one of 265 tons and two of 226 tons capacity.

city

Further additions

(2) Mike, Japan.

(1) Manila,

(3) Keelung (Fornissa).

(3) Shanghai.

(a) Feochow.

(7) Yokohama, Japan.

(4) Wangmoon.

the near future.

Chlorination

tion.

sons

Classification

arrived at

shortly.

Mr. A. T. Newbolt, M. C. S., Secretary to Resident, Negri Sem- bilan, has resumed duties after his

...

A. J. L. Lee, formerly of Lumpur. officiated.

Kuala

The Rev. R. S. Stewart

At St. Andrew's Church, Penang, the wedding was solemmised of in such things, (a Mr. Carlson of practice is required to enable ons Mr. P. A. Winter, Penang, and Mrs. The finger-prints of convicted per Los Angeles discovered a method to assert definitely that a print is

are filed according to the

for forging finger-prints in 1921, identical. Having classification of all ton digits. while Mr. Albert Wehde, a labora-finger-print slip which looks as if There are three distinct types The total amount of water sup-whorl, loop and arch, and the first tory worker in the Department of it might be identical it is necessary. plied from ships in transit to of these is divided (under the Identification of the U.S. Penitenti- to scrutinise one or two, if one

Mr. E. W. Mumford, Assistant ships and stations in port requir-Conlay system) into two and the ary at Leavenworth proved that wants to make doubly certain-- ing same was 580 tons, which was second into three varieties accord-forgery was possible in 1925) but digits on the finger-print slip being Commissioner of Police, F.M.S., charged for at $1 per ton. This ing to certain characteristics, mak- should there ever occur a concrete searched, and collect distinctive returned from Home leave by the on June 27. Mr. C. price will probably be raised ining a total of six varieties. Each case of criminals using forged points and see if they appear on "Khyber"

has its relative value and the print finger-prints on their unlawful en- the corresponding digits in the slip Careless, of the F.M.S. Railways, would, I should on the file. Such points would be and Mr. W. Dowling, Chief Inspec- is filed accordingly. Each digit terprises it The manufacture of the 400- helps to fix the position of a finger-imagine, be difficult to persuade the bifurcation of a ridge, a short tor of Police, F.M.S., are expected gallon wooden tanks for chlorinat print slip on the files in the same any jury to accept such evidence ridge possibly not more than a back from Home leave by the

dash, a break in a ridge, an "Kashmir” on July 25. ing purposes is being expedited. way that each letter helps to fix the again.

It is gratifying to reflect, how- "island" (ie, a line. bifurcating Nine tanks have been received from position of a word in a dictionary. the Government

workshop, and Ten digits capable of being one of ever, that nothing of this sort can and the two lines thus made join-

The Kiangsu Provinefal Govern- three of these have been installed six different varieties naturally re-affect the effectiveness or mar the ing together again almost at once

Dr. Wei Tao-ming, in Wellington Street and coupled sult in a large number of combina-infallibility of finger-print bureaux and thus forming a small island), mert has appointed Wei Ngo-hutam, up to the special pipe system. tions and although the expert in tracing the criminal histories of all occurring, of course, in identi- nephew of

accused persons.

cal positions in each digit. With former Minister of Justice, to take Three more tanks have been erect in The Green Toad is quite incor- ed at Victoria nullah, near Arsenal rect in his assertion that no two

Now let us turn to the second fifteen such points of identity charge of the jai! at Zao-wu-ching,

near Zikawei. Street, and the pipe system has hands show the same combination criminal that ever went in.... I been made by different digits that point. "I know every habitual against the impressions having been completed. The remaining-for it is unfortunately a fact that

can read at a glance any finger-one would be justified in certifying A Shanghai Russian newspaper three tanks are in course of erec- certain combinations, not only in print you put in front of me" said that the impressions were those of states that in spite of drastic

hands but in pairs of hands, are Well Supplies

Inspector Bullett the Scotland the same digit. Sir E. R. Henry, measures by the police of the all too common, thus rendering Yard Record Dept., in The Hand the recognised authority on finger- Settlement, a local gambling com- Work has been continued on the search on certain files a tedious of Power by Edgar Wallace. Now prints, considered it to be three bine is planning shortly to open trial well at the Race Course, business-nevertheless the system what did he mean by that? Either chances to one against any one another pretentious "wheel" In the Happy Valley and Government so splits the bureau up as to make that he could recognise any type characteristic in the impression of central part of the Settlement. authority has been received to pro-searching on the files a simple mat- of finger-print or that he could re-a digit appearing in exactly the .ceed with the general pumping ter averaging about 5 minutes per scheme.

(A very large number take cognise any type of finger-prints of same place in the impression of an- any criminal in his bureau. He other digit. The chances against

tion in Tai Hang Village.

slip.

Chiang Kai-shek is reported to A survey has been made, and only a minute or less but search on could hardly mean the latter two characteristics appearing in have decided to make an inspection levels taken, in connection with a the congested files referred to some quaer distortion or scar will different digits would, therefore, be trip of Hupeh and Anhwel pro- scheme for bringing into use an above spoils the average),

His work will largely be sometimes, enable one to recognise and against three (4). It is vinces. old well at Wanchai Gap, for the

Missing Fingers

that the chances devoted to inspecting the military benefit of houses between that place If the impressions of a man area print one has seen before and if thus found and Magazine Gap.

sent in with one finger missing, it an accused person's prints are sub-against ten characteristics appear and civil conditions in these two Work has been continued on the is necessary, when searching to mitted twice within a few days one ing in two digits not identical provinces. trial well at the Central Market, treat that finger as being of each can sometimes recollect that the would be over a million to one.

finger-prints of that person have It may be thought by some that

|prints will go.

and Mrs. Elliot

and water was found at a depth of variety in turn, as this man may passed through one's hands recent much, of what I have written i senger by the "Patroclua," is com- Mrs. Robert Kennedy, a pas- 14 feet. Sinking will be carried a have been convicted in the pasty But that, in my opinion, is as superfluous and that I am mistaken ing to Singapore on a visit to her few feet further..

before losing his finger. This The Fu Kwang

means a fairly prolonged search, far as the recognition of finger in my belief that the uses of finger brother, Mr. J. Sharpe Elliot, of

prints and the methods of filing The Fu Kwang (A.P.C. tanker) but two missing fingers means is being kept on by the Govern- very much longer job and when rect one, then the author is leading may be so; my only excuse must be

If the former meaning is the cord them are not widely known. This the Public Works Department, ment till the end of the month. A three fingers are missing search on his readers to believe that the that in my limited experience the renewal of the charter is impos- these lines ia considered imprac study of finger-prints is one of a contrary would appear to be the Before the Hon. Mr. Justice sible as the tanker has a previous ticable and each missing finger is certain amount of intricacy and case and when it is realised that Prichard, at Ipoh, an application engagement" in Shanghai early in allotted the classification found in one requiring much practice, the I have in the past had frequent ap-was made by Messrs. Maxwell and

the corresponding finger of the reading of a finger-print at a pilcations from Police Officers, who Kenion for letters of administra The Fu Kwong arrived on Wed-other hand, the only hope being glance" being apparently, no mean might be supposed to have some tion in the estate of Mr. R. H. A nesday evening with 1,240 tons and that all these fingers were missing feat. The author of The Green sound ideas on the subject to bring Kellar of Ipoh, who died soms left yesterday at noon, being due when the man was first registered, Toad does the same when he writes to light the criminal history of the time ago in West Australia. back to-day at 5 pm.

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At Tai Shui Hang, in Lantao prints on the files, it is customary plaining the loops and whorts of and that my protests that such a The Rt. Rev. Wachter, Bishop of Island, the dam and pipe line for a when fingers are missing, to

feat was quite impossible were Bornec, and Mgr. Dunn, Superior supply to police and other launches classify the missing digit as if it

greeted with surprise (and in one of the Roman Catholle Mission has been completed. The four och were the same as that of the cor The Malayan Bureau pipe was running full" and de responding anger in the other The cunning of the Malayan case indignation), perhaps I will there, who arrived in Penang from livering about 200 tons a day hand. It will now be realised how bureau which entails, among other be forgiven for assuming that there Borneo recently have left for Tai- At Sham Cheung (the Ruttonjee impracticable it would be to search duties, the keeping track annually are still some who require en ping. Hill to stay there for a few the matter of days. They belong to the Mill Hil scheme) the contracters have made for one finger, for there would be of some twenty-five thousand tenment in

mission in London and are in charge excellent progress, having brought no means of ascertaining on which finger print slips received from nger-prints.

of the mission in Borneo. They over from Hong Kong and laid 4,000 file to search, one would therefore places all over the peninsula, re- lineal feet of six-inch piping. The bave to search every file. The turned thereto with the result of It is announced that the Austra have come over to Malaya' for a present dam-40 feet by four feet Malayan bureau contains over search and received back and dealt lian National Broadcasting Com change, Mgr. Dann, who is 71, hay high-may be raised and it is pos-200,000 sheets of finger-prints, Le, with according as to whether the pany intends to embark on aing just recovered from illness. On

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