The cameras and paraphernalia in the possession of the S. M. Police are such that a finger print can be, taken off any surface and reproduced, if considered necessary, several hundred times larger than the actual impression, A demonstration of this operation was given to the writer yesterday who. was Permitted to seo a huge Addis Ensign professional enlarger and projector, (which, by the way, is the only camera of its kind in the Far in actual use, the grain or ridges in one's thumb impression being immediately enlarged and reproduced to the size of the lead of an ordinary pencil. The method of reproducing latent finger _prints was also demonstrated whereby imprints can by taken off any object} touched. For instance, the finger prints on a candle were once the means of bringing criminals Justice. A glass dish touched by burglar showed, after being dealt! with by the bureau, a perfect impression which could be compared with the records in the possession of the bureau, An instrument known to the profession "as a Dacteloscope reproduces, by means: of mirrors and lights, the impression taken off any object side by side with the record taken from the files magnified By this} of the Bureau; showing the prints
method a mistake is absolutely impossible.
'A finger print camera, which can be taken to the scene of a crime and placed over a finger print and the impression conveyed by means of tiny electric lights to a glass plate, was another of the interesting! instruments demonstrated.
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