HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1951-10-10, Page 12TO TOWN CLERK W. A. GALBRAITH fell the dubious honor of being the •
first 'culprit' to be fingerprinted by Chief Irwin, who has inaugurated the
system here. We don't know what Mr. Galbraith's 'crime' was but it must
have been pretty serious. Probably double-parking.-Staff Photo.
Wingham Pol ice Chief Inaugurates
New Fingerprinting System
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TWEIXE WINGRAINI ADVANCI"..-TFAMS
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COUNCIL IIEETINO
TM regular meeting f eouncil was
held on Monday. c)otober 1st., at 10 a.
m. with all members present
Moved by Thos H Abraham and
Robt. A. Powell that the minutes of
the last meeting he adopted as read.
Moved by Herb Foxton and W. Jack
Willits. that the following general
and road accounts be paid.
General Accounts- -County of Huron
Hospitalization, $61.50: Municipal
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Gospel Hall
Regular "umlay ‘e.rvices
Sunday Seheol 1e1", a. M.
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Gospe l Meeting S p.m
Prayers an :a' I3ih1 rStud.
Each Friday vvering ct A n
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World. ye:: George Thomson pt. sale.;
p,., Inge $11.oe; W. 1)
Bolt drain, ,S563.0o; Ross wn.
:its, conipe $47.25; John K. Altn"rav-
;ea, $00,110: Geo Brooks. fox
bounty. Jas. Millis, 2 sheep kill-
ed, $r .0e.
Road Accounts George Greenaway.
$61eei; W. A. Hogg, $86.39; Ceo. OW-
lowaY, $211.93; Win. Mundell, $193.02:
Stainton Hardware, $10.13; Geo. Rad-
ford, $50.00; State Farm Mutual,
$47.69: Br. American Oil Co., $128.26;
Deept. of Highways, $34.10; Fred
Smaildon, $356.00; Wm. J. Smith,
$0 0.00; Bob Nicholson, $60.00; Mitchell
Elliott. $51.00; Everett Cathers, $117,
30: Bob Hogg, $17.50; Geo. W. Croth-
ors Ltd.. $92.91: Wm. Mundell, $12.00;
A. C. Lillow. $78.70; A. D. Smith, $6.00.
says, "As the feet are subjected to a
certain amount of wear and tear by,
reason of walking on them, and as
manual labor has the same effect on
the hands and fingers, it is a well-
known fact that if the texture of the
skin on these parts were the same as
that on the other parts of the body
it would take no time to cause it an
injury; therefore it became necessary
to provide some means of offsetting
and lessening the possibilities of an
injury to these parts; thus nature
furnishes what may be termed cor-
rugated skin, because it is stronger
than plain, smooth skin." These
ridges also create suction'and thereby
prevent slipping.
Universal Fingerprinting
Every year hundreds of unidenti-
fied bodies are put into unmarked
graves. What stronger argument for
universal fingerprinting could there
be than this? When criminals and ex-
convicts die in strange surroundings,
their identity is established and their
bodies are sent home to their fam-
ilies. Why should the law-abiding
citizens he denied the benefits that
the criminal classes are enjjoying?
Can fingerprints be forged, is the
question often asked, Anything that
can be reproduced can be forged, Fin-
gerprints absolutely cannot be forged
successfully so as to defy detection.
The Council met in the township
hall on October 2nd with all the
members present. The minutes of the
last meeting were read and adopted
on motion of Charles Coultes and
Sam Alcock.
A delegation visited the council in
regard to the McCrea. Cemetery and
it was decided to appoint a Cemetery
Board for the township.
Moved by Charles Coultes, second-
ed by Baillie Parrott, that the neces-
sary by-law be passed setting the no-
mination day for Nov. 30th at 1 p.m.
and the election, if necessary, to be
held on December 10 and appointing
deputy returning officers and poll
clerks.
Moved by Bailie Parrott, seconded
by Wni, Peacock that the road bills
as presented by the Road Superin-
tendent be paid.
Moved by Sam Alcock, seconded by
Bailie Parrott that the following be
appointed as a Cemetery Board for
the Township of Morris: Herman Ne-
thery, Chas. Bosnian, Jim Johnston,
Reginald Watson, and George Michie.
Moved by Win. Peacock, seconded by
Sam Aleock that Addison Fraser be
paid $600 to assess the township for
the year 1953.
Moved by Sam Alcock, seconded by
Bailie Parrott that the meeting ad-
journ to meet again on November 5
at 1 p.m.
The following accounts were paid:
Advance-Times, advertising, $2.60; W.
Shortreed, valuators fees, $3.61; Wal-
ter Oster, poultry killed, $18.85; A.
Whitney, flowers for Robt. Shortreed
$8.00; John Kelly, fox bounty, $2.00;
R. McLean, fox bounty, $2.00; Clar-
ence White, drawing wood and tile,
$16.00; R. McLean, poultry killed,
$80.50; Dave Craig, unloading tile, Go-
vier Drain, $8,10; Bailie Parrott, un-
loading tile, $2.00; Harvey Johnston,
meals for township tour, 0.90; Geo.
Martin, transportation, $5,00; Mrs.
Robt, Craig, relief, $20,00; Addison
Fraser, part salary, $100.00; Harvey
Johnston, Court of Revision, $8.00;
Chas. Coultes, Court of Revision, $8.;
Sam Alcock, Court of Revision, $8.00;
Wm, Peacock, Court of Revision,
$8,00; Bailie Parrott, Court of Re-
vision, $8.00; Addison Fraser, Court
of Revision, $8.00; Geo. Martin, Court
of Revision, $8.00,
it Moved by Robt. A. Powell and
Herb Foxton that we adjourn and
form the Court of Revision on As-
.1! sessment Roll. There were thirteen
heard and decided on by the
Mov,d by Thos. H. Abraham and
Rola. A. Powell that the Court of
il,t'ision on Assessment Roll be elos-
i ed.
; Moved by Herb Foxton and Thos.
H. Abraham that we adjourn to meet
eie iie on Monday. Nov. 5th., at 1 p.m.
o T. Themson, Clerk.
, \‘' Undenveed, Reeve.
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it literally, as over a thousand years
ago the Chinese monarchs used their
thumb prints on documents as a
sign manual. This was the first use
of fingerprints. In the year 1823, the
finger impression was discussed by
Purkinje, a German professor of
physiology and pathology in Ger-
many He gave nine standard types
and laid out a plan of classification,
but his ideas were not accepted,
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Study the back of your hand. You
will notice that it Is smooth compar-'
Tel ed with the palm or inside. But if
you examine the fleshy part of your •
Fa hand, right between the base of the
little finger and the wrist, you will
r4 notice how the character of the skin
ga changes, and see how the little ridges
rt form as they enter the palm of the
El hand. The same is true on the fin-
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It was only during the Noronic
fire recently that fingerprints once
again proved invaluable for
ing the victims of that tragic fire. In
a recent case, a New Jersey police
force transmitted to the Identifica-
tion Division the fingerprints of an
unknown pedestrian who had been
killed by an automobile, Search of
the files revealed the identity of the
unknown dead who had a finger-
print record dating hack to January
1e3Y.
er countries the fingerprint system
i • used connectionwith theB
Wien method. Since parts of Ber-
tillon's system are still in use in this
country, every identification expert
; must understand both methods thor-
' oughly. The Bertillon method is a
system of measuring the human body
' at, and between,certainpoints,and
was invented by A. M. Bertillon, a
Frenchman.
Never Change
The pattern of a fingerprint never
changes during the human• life, It
I When they speak of the fingerprint and it is an established fact that the
has been proved hundreds of times
The ground work done by Sir Hers-
chel served as the foundations for the
establishing of this new mode of
identification by Sir E. R. Henry.
In 1893 it was decided by the English
authorities to look into the finger-
print system of identification more
a!19f1. 'I rmitailttialltlimvacutrlimIumii[es,
Chief Constable J. W. Irwin of
Wingham is a progressive police of-
ficer with twenty years experience on
the St. Catharines police force both
in the uniformed and plain clothes
branches. Many are the stories
which he can tell of crime and law
enforcement. Some of them pretty
hair raising too.
The Wingham police force has
undergone many improvements under
his leadership. The latest of these is
a fingerprinting system which will
prove valuable for identification
purposes both here and to other
police forces around the country.
Help in Emergency
Some local citizens may scoff at
the need for such a system in a
town of this size but it is only by
keeping up with the latest methods,
that a police force can be of use
when an emergency does arise. It
is very easy for a small town force
to slip into a rut, but that is not
likely, under Chief Irwin.
First Used in India
It was Sir William Herschel, of the
Indian Civil Service, dug down deep
into the subject and found a way to
use them to good advantage. Hers-
chel was in executive charge of the
courts in the Hoogly district of
Bengal, India, and found many im-
personations which were false, as
early as 1858. He adopted a means
of fingerprint identification of his
own invention and required all
papers of a public nature be staMp- •
ed by a thumb print.
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details of the ridges constituting the
patterns of finger impressions per-
sist throughout the whole period re
presenting the life of man.
Patterns found on the fingers of a
new-born babe are traceable on the
fingers of the same person in old age,
and they will stay the same after
death, until the body is decomposed.
If we take a print from the finger
of a young child, four or five months
old, we will find a pattern there, and
though the ridges may be faint and
the pattern hard to see, the pattern
is present. It will not change during
life. Of course, the ridges will be-
come more definite and easier to see
as the child grows older, but the de-
sign will remain exactly the same,
Animals Also
It is because the ridges are so faint,
and the pattern so indefinite in a ba-
by's fingers, that the footprints are
substituted for fingerprints in the
hospitals where this system is used.
For there are ridges on the bottoms
of our feet, too, and these ridges form
patterns just the way the ridges on
our fingers do. If you were to take
the fingerprints from a monkey, ba-
; boon or any other animal of that kind,
!you would find ridges in them, In fact
the fingerprint impressions of these
animals might easily be taken for the
fingerprints of a human.
Why does nature provide us with
these ridges? Of what use are they to
our bp'tes.? There are Many different
theories offered. Ktiline, in his book
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thoroughly, and a committee was
appointed to make a report. This re-
port made certain recommend-
ations which were followed and since
that time the finger print system
has been used with wonderful re-
sults.
Henry System
Sir H. R. Henry was born. in 1852
and speilf!'-,i5 years in the service of
the British government. The system
of fingerprint filing and classification
which the police are using today is
called the Henry system. Any finger-
print expert who understands the
Henry system will find it easy to
comprehend the other systems.
Best Method
Today the fingerprint system is
acknowledged to be the best possible
method of identification. It has su-
perseded in many countries, the Ber-
tillon method of identification, which,
until recently, had been acknowledg-
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