Word: fingerprinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn Democratic district leader, was let out on $5,000 bail. Miss Pavlick, newlywed and sobbing, was exonerated after the police satisfied themselves that her connection with the case had ended on receipt of the first $1,000. In Krone's apartment, searching police found a fingerprint camera, wiretapping set, a picture of one-time Governor Smith inscribed: "To my friend Mr. Krone, Alfred E. Smith...
...Washington last week the atmosphere fairly oozed with friendly accord. There were conferences, teas, trips through the 4,500,000 fingerprint library at the Department of Justice, visits to its criminal laboratories. No small part in helping effect an entente cordiale was performed by Hostess Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, a lively brunette with gracious ways and a glib...
Elated over the result, Mr. Johnston planned to try the fingerprint campaign elsewhere, hoped it would sweep...
...centuries the juridical systems of the civilized world have assumed that the natural handwriting of no two persons is the same. In most commercial transactions a signature is considered as good as a face or a fingerprint. Even the most skilful forgers find it next to impossible to perform in public. Thus successful forgeries of travelers' checks, which must be countersigned under scrutiny, are almost unknown...
Joseph Arthur Faurot, 59 and now retired from the New York City police force where in 1906 he introduced the standard system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service...