Unusual Damage to Plate-Glass Windows
| Date | 01 January 1957 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X5703000107 |
| Published date | 01 January 1957 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
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THE
POLICE
JOURNAL
On
one occasion two books thus obtained were removed and, at a
later date, when these
had
been replaced by new editions, the two new
volumes were removed
and
the old ones returned.
From
the subject
matter
of
the books, suspicion fell on a certain
section of the student community. Specimens of the handwriting
of
these persons were available for scrutiny. On comparison, one of the
specimen writings was found to
match
the writing on the library form.
The house
of
the person whose writing
had
been identified was searched
and
the two stolen books were recovered. The
youth
concerned was
later placed on
probation
when he admitted the theft
of
the books.
(5) The following is an extract from a report in a Scottish provincial
newspaper:-"A
forty-two year old labourer, W.A.G., was sent to
prison for nine months when he pleaded guilty
at
K-
Sheriff
Court
to a charge of having carnal knowledge of a 15-year-old girl. He
had
previously pleaded
not
guilty to the charge, which was on indictment,
but
changed his plea, which was made
through
his agent. The girl in
question
had
given
birth
to
a child. The charge was
brought
home to
G., said the Fiscal, through the identification
of
unsigned letters which
had
passed between him
and
the girl. The letters were subjected to
scrutiny by handwriting experts
of
Glasgow Police. They were com-
pared with known samples of G's writing
and
found, in the opinion
of
the experts, to be the same."
REFERENCES
I"The
Classification
and
Identification
of
Handwriting" by C. D. Lee
and
R. A. Abbey: Appleton & Co., 25 Bedford Street, London.
2"Handwriting
Classification-A
description
of
the system employed
by
Nottingham
City Police."
THE
POLICE
JOURNAL,
Vol. XVIII,
No.1:
January-March, 1945.
Unusual
Damage
to
Plate-Glass
Windows
By DR. D. A.
FRYE,
Chief Chemist, Department of Chemistry, Singapore.
ONthree occasions recently, plate-glass windows in Singapore
have been damaged by having a small, clean hole made in
them with no damage to the rest
of
the window; in two cases these
were shop windows
and
in the other a small "fanlight" window in
a bus. In no case was a missile found.
Fig. 1 shows a view
of
the hole in the bus window taken from the
interior
of
the bus.
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