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M ;.iA POLICE NE1V TRICKS IN TRAPPING CRIMINALS im v.. yjI'TTTF Astute Metropolitan Detectives Amazed at Stmplictty of Numerical System of identification as Explained by Inge berg Charlette Hellner-Nielsen GIRL OF 26 RECOGNIZED IN EUROPE AS WITHOUT A PEER IN HER WORK i Basis of Jergensen Plan Is Fingerprint- ! ing Scheme, but Special Characters- ' tics of Persons Wanted Are Reduced te Cede by Use of Figures, Saving Time CATCHING criminals by numbers! - That's the latest idea in international police circles. Sounds some thing like putting salt en a sparrow's tail, but actually in practice it is Bech easier and does net require se much stealth. It is all simple when you knew hew. Police departments throughout the Natien arc expected seen te be frying nreunu cruuis luguiuuui, bihucmiw equations ana Digamist addi tions in their heads. Ne merry quip about it. It is a fact. The new system has just arrived in America in the custody of its nett expert exponent. Policemen from all parts of the country are in Hew Yerk today te hear about it, and the -whole thing is te be explained te them by a demure girl. It gees something like this: Superintendent Mills wants te catch the professional bank robber who get into a banker's strong vaults where there was a million in currency and then supposedly get out with it. Mills thinks he knows the robber. He has a hunch he is new enjoying his Billion in the white-light district of Keokuk, la. He sends out an S. 0. S. te the chief in Keokuk, after looking up his name in the little book in the pigeonhole, his wire reading: , "Bill Slick, N 1, E 8, H 2, M 2, F 4, Q 7, X 10. Wire of arrest C. 0. D." The Keokuk chief responds evernight: "Get him. Wire thumb numbers for verification." Mills docs and gets a second answer: "It's your bird all right. Chase along your extradition." Mills gees back at him: "Sure. Thanks." That's all there is te it. A clear-eyed girl from Copen Cepen higen, who employs science with a tfpital "S" in running down enemies cf society, has just arrived in the United States te attend the Inter Inter utienal Police Convention at New Yerk. This particular delegate uvers nothing of familiar police types; in fact, has no counterpart in the world. This pretty police atrent. as thev kail non - uniformed operatives abroad, is a charming and modish young woman of quiet and unas luming manner, who is numbered among a very few of the world's greatest fingerprint experts. Miss Ingeberg Charlette Hellner Nielsen, of Denmark, a cultured and carefully educated woman of twenty-six, who reads, writes and peaks six languages, "including the Scandinavian," has caught the fancy of New Yerk and centered the at tention of seme of the brightest Minds in the police profession. Her frst brief stay in America, which he declares will net be her last, has already become one constant round ef active inquiry from early morning felate at night into American police methods and equipment. in America Leng Enough te rick Up Real Slang Miss Hcllner-Nielsen, in English English of precise and nrim dic tien-declares that the wonders of New Yerk "quite bowl her ever" and "iat from what she has already seen f American police problems she can Understand the intricacies and baf fling perplexities of crime detection &d Punishment thnt: frnn,,nr,n .n- Jrent our metropolitan operatives' ause of great distances and poly pely poly t'et population. dlslike heinn- mtntntran fni- an ddlty or freak," she exclaimed earn e, "merely because I am a se-"eus-minded young woman in the Police business. My profession is We fraught with the verv irravt jensequences te society everywhere, " ou lav no ii . r..i ii.. . .. .I,, euLcuaaiui practice concerned. Tn , ..... " sorely upset world, influences M clemeiuj are at work that only "'Ponsible persons familiar with "hidden meaning of events can "diligently analyze. The public as Whole Of all COIinrrlnn Tina nn nn. "Ptien of what is going en behind w acenm Ever nlnna tV. .-.!. 11 i.v. M1 world has been off its nor Ba' mental hBa j ...-T. . --!- airnirs has caused master crimi- " in nil countries te seize their !Krtun,ty t0 cheat and betn,y s- te7 their own advftntage. It rebb byend mere thievcry or el.u. "empasned by either Cleverncss m- u iLA ..... ... ertn. l "unto inns core ex tern i !? t0 be cPed with evcn J" wmal times. S0& honeycombed "Th "l0h'cla88 Creeks , ., - wen and women today ku, countries, cunning, unscrupu- . cruel, tigers underneath the J w gentle lambs, who will sell Sm e ?,nor and " e' eir wunWei without s bluik or LL?t3.?A. iUBBlU&iyii... jj ..c. f i . i t. l '"."). rL X '-( i" fXXfWSaiAl J.U "----" 1-Ti..JJJm.mJ.1J, jrr . -...-.. pang, te win a considerable sum of money. They are net the author ized Government secret agents, al though there are even that kind who cannot be trusted where a large sum of money is concerned and who have te be watched by ether agents and kept in employ because of their keen wits. The people te whom I refer are brainy scavengers of vital se crets who cultivate the acquaintance of people of high places and worm from them governmental or business information, or documents, which 'V Europe, have called this wonderful international conference, which is bound te have far-reaching results. "After all, higher civilization Is one great fraternity, regardless of nationality or race or creed. Mu nicipal police of the great cities of the world and of the capitals of all countries work just as much for na tional and international safety as they de in safeguarding their home communities. They are constantly Involved in international cases and are often the successful connecting links between great criminals and governmental agencies seeking them. "My sociological studies in crime have convinced me that Commis sioner Enright is eminently correct in his estimate and conception of the importance of hearty and friendly co-operation between the municipal police departments of all countries. Please understand, howevor, that when I voice this opinion I de se only as one of the tiny cogs in the great machine of police in the world, in which I personally am of small importance." Werthy of Attention She Is Attracting After hearing this brilliant young woman enunciate the foregoing senti ments, which are given virtually word for word, one is compelled te agree with Mrs. Mary Hamilton, of the New Yerk rerce, ncr caaperen and friend while in America, and herself a bright ex ample of what a woman rnn be in effi cient police work, that Miss Hcllner Ncllsen is worthy of all the attention she in attracting. Miss Hellncr-Nlelsen has a fine gray blue eye that seems te penetrate te the inner consciousness. She Is of that calm, poised type of modern woman who instantly commands respect and truth telling, for the quest of truth and noth ing but the truth is reflected by her whole engrossing personality, A nov elist would spend whole pages in de scribing her as his heroine. She is of medium, compact build and svelte figure, that being a perfectly geed Scandinavian word, and it is admir ably suited te describing her. She wears I KTYS iiii . ' rvt r La &? 2 1 IS ' V . i . ' mim C . A ' , d ' ii - ira. &&&?. ii fMSAk &e: ft& .i te 'j & Xtf: '4.9. tx &1$ iVi !-? mid rut i'??: fmKfti, I KV !'! I '' '?-Ji, V", I 7&tf, &?. i I the complete features In composite of the person sought. "Yeu may be surprised te knew that It is an everyday matter with us te arrest criminals en sight as a result of nothing niore than the telegraphing of a row of figures from one city te another. We have trained men and women who are co expert that they very rarely make en error, even though they have nothing but a mental photograph In numbers te guide them. With us It Is getting te be like telegraphing market reports. "We He net always send the portrait parle, but often only the fingerprint numerals and the person's name, where the receiving police have the same fingerprint record we have. Then when the constable encounters the man wanted, after learning his description from the files, he approaches hlra and says politely : Fingerprints Regarded as Sure Identification " 'Parden me, sir, but I am a police- Ingeberg Charlette Hellner-Nielsen, Danish fingerprint expert Then his special distinguishing marks make his Identity absolutely sure. We have found It possible through Mr. Jergenscn's wonderful system te reduce the general and special characteristics te a cedo expressed in figures." The young woman next displayed n glass cube of two-Inch dimensions, leunded te an ellipse en ene side In the centcr of which, when looking through the rounded side, one Bees lines and figures. This placed ever the finger te be examined magnifies nnd measures and makes plain the charac teristics of the thumb nnd fingers, nil of which are numbered, en each hand. This glass Is also the Invention of the astute Mr. Jergensen. She then went en te ny: Telegraphing Numerals Saves Valuable Time "We telegraph these numerals nnd they are compared with the finger prints taken of the person arrested. That mivpi time nnd we don't have te wait te forward old fingerprints. All these prints nnd numbers are registered In a central identification burcnu and the formula In a given case Is tele tele graphed or cabled. This Is a system which we should llke te see adopted throughout the civilized world nnd mnde nn International aid te effective police work." , Aflfea TTn11nAi.VlAlfln ATnlnlnait fVifif t'llfl lirillICi -lliriltll I AII1II1IILM LUHl - - . a she did no "outside" police work worth apparent reasons. The merp countries mentioning that her work was at a that ue it the morn efficacious it will dC8k. become In protecting teciety. In regard te police work by women, i "The system protects the Innocent she sold, they were excellent in matters nnd unmnska the guilty. I will nfferd of detail, that they had remarkable i free facilities for n school here gladly, powers of observation and they never In two months, although the system can missed fine points that were sometimes overlooked by their male colleagues. In selected the duplicate of one at randeni and put it In his pocket. When half-way across the Atlantic he wirelessed n row of forty figures te the Copenhagen police department, constituting n query ns te the Identity of the person. Wireless Relay Gets Man Police Wanted Mr. Jorgensen displayed the numeri cal record te the writer and the wire less message which he received en beard the vessel In reply In four hours. The message read : "The person In question identical with Petcr Nnnscn, born in Copen Cepen Copen hegpn, September 21, 18SS." He was the man. The test had been made by wireless te see hew long it would take te Identify the person, whether the right person would b found and te estimate the chances of lnnccurncr In transmiwden. Consider ing the feet of two relays of the mes sage In ordinary transmission of wire wire less, the expert considered It a triumph for the Bystcm. "We are quite willing te establish a school In America nnd te see a Grand Central Iiurcnu of International Iden tification established In this country," wild Mr. Jergensen. "We are net at all wlfish about this thing for quite dotpetire. work, she Rnlil. fher wprn iime ful at labor which necessarily must be performed at a desk, since men would much prefer te work outside In pur suing criminals. Douglas McKay, Special Deputy Po lice Commissioner of New Yerk nnd secretary of the International Police uemerence, praisea tne numeral sys L i i 1 r . - . !.. p inarneu m iuur iu. wu uuu uiunu m corps of experts who will then be able te tench It te ethers throughout the country. Delegates from nil the Im portant cities could at first attend the school te get in operation. Judge Schaffcr, who Is a young man te be presiding justice of a milltarv or state police court, told In fluent Eng lish hew a school was held In Berlin last May when twenty great identification tern of catching criminals by telegraph p experts from various countries of and mall, and he said lhe domenstrn- . Hurepe were taught the new system, tiens of it afforded by the Danish ex- The delegates te Mr. Jergcnsen's school pert had convinced the New Yerk de- mastered the system in less than a week Us MS r L "WSk i&?. 1az7J&W5&: k$m jT'tr V V'-i VSl. liZi&!' . (SSflf.J.S' ?. Hi.- a-'WA i''r. r.in!?rr&?ti wuus. . t, -,,..., ";(C.AShX ,; tZf, ' W m. . M ?&mei ?"" '& SJT y&jwb. '4S i sJ& v M ,, V . 14 ( Wmkk iw 5 trtVA t w .& 2S5 im KVjcagMBBiH j f ir sf ts ..C & -. m WitPf'K., ir t.- A i'A Viii. w ia; A 1S:"--'. M't'Vr .SS Sii$t 'J, i!iVx imts. i t, VliiUj 4 W. '. w-fl W,it V&8 iT, y l9i.' l-fry-ifr l?Ss x(-i i M ' '',i! .",. ZiiKb Hf '& .r- y&Li vm . "."TS !$&$ f-'rit.' Vv' r f i mw zr " . & iVr"- &Zf i'i'Z.1 Sir, t :S' JvSiv. vr t && ?Trfk??,. m?mm Miss Nielsen explaining her method Vsi IK '" ps "?": vC ?- & i' "'. J tJ M Kv?? rx ' IVW K. m 1C -?, yi'i -, l;-; . ' tfTxpWL lvV)J-5 Taking fingerprints by new method $ U.-J&sd mj$m u iti i7?i $y -yj fi-S i 95? 4p Anether pose of Miss Nlelsen they whisk off te a ready market in some ether nation. "Unfortunately in the present scheme of organized society there always is a market for that kind of stolen information, which, as long as it appears te be authentic, and is later proved accurate, is freely bought. "On this subject of international crime, and your country, although isolated in its great physical strength, Is net immupe from its workings by any means, all I can say is that what secm te be the wild est imaginings of the writers of fic tion are far surpassed by the actual facts. Predict Valuable Result Frem Police Conference "I am glad, therefore, that the police of your great cities in Amer ica, under the leadership of your en ergetic and highly modem chief in New Yerk, Commissioner Enright, win hM Utely ritera. from chic Parisian hats, sulfa nnd gowns well. Miss Hellner-NIeUen arrived In America a fortnight in ndvante of the police convention, which brings together police chiefs and their most highly skilled operatives from the four cerners of the world, te study what she could of however, she hns been teaching and demonstrating fine points te officials and detectives of the New Yerk force of which they found they had no knowledge. Mrs. Hamilton, after seeing some of the young woman s demonstrations, de clared : Gives Demonstration Before Police Heads "She Is a remarkable person nnd will be heard from in the police world. She Is worthy of all the attention she Is receiving from people here, We find that they are fnr ahead of us ever there In many angles of crime ferreting nnd that they are able te get quicker results." Hardly had Miss Ilellncr-Nlclscn ar rived when she was escorted te New Yerk headquarters, where ske was Greeted by Commissioner Enright and Is deputies. She then visited the Bureau of Identification, where she gave a remarMDle demonstration or tne &. m&22fi. iS' . ji m 'V if. SA r ,' V4.'s - ,;.- r hP- vs- ' w&W&M ii!W& V1- V, w w: . '', '&-& Wf,'rf i',- 'v;.wk u !T fK&.si 'i.S tMl' mm w. &A , XtUfA ''... ZMKa One of original fingerprint records brought from Copenhagen for demons tratlen purposes tecttve methods. Fer obvious reasons neither the young woman nor officers of the New Yerk department would reveal many of the details of the cede sys tem employed. That Miss Hellner-Nielsen has high standing In her own country, however, was fully Indicated by her selection te dcraonstrnte the workings of Denmark's detective system before the intcrnutieiin! conference, when ideas from all coun tries are te be Interchanged. Accom panying her te New Yerk ere Haken Jergensen, Vice Director of Police of Copenhagen, and Judge Erik Schacffer, both of whom showed their excellent command of English In praising her at tainments. Mr. JorgeiiBen Is the man who devised the numeral fingerprint system. I describing her particular Interest, uia atveacaBiing or quicK and mettiedl- werkUf, g.QtMtrk'- W4l- SiSpiteS" tf Slw-dSi: the Danish police, Miss Hellner-Nielsen said: Explains Ins and Outs of Verbal Photograph "We employ and record, of course, nil the uBunl Information gained con cerning n criminal's name and aliases, his history nnd general description. But in addition te that we employ a system of figures called the 'portrait parle' or verbal portrait, which can be telegraphed, mnllcd or telephoned te ether places in case a suspect has escnped from or eluded us. "Fer Instance, If the pollce depart ment with which we communicate as certains thnt the fugltlve has a 'Type Onei chin and a 'Type Twe ear and a 'Type Three' forehead and certain ether numbered features, It Is possible te' fend out experts who can' yllusllxe iru&:&Ai& , J., man. Yeu resemble n person sought by the authorities of Copenhagen. Would you mind showing me your fingers?' "necnuse of the classiflcn tiens of nnger marks he can Instantly tell whether the suspect is the man wanted. If the man hesitates te show his fin gers, he is nrrosted nnwvny and IiIb hands examined at headquarters, but released, of course, If a mlstake Ins ueeu raaae. it he gladly shows his hends and a mlstake has been mnde, the policeman says: " 'Parden, but we are In error. Yeu R," fr?.t0 s' Won't you have a cigarette?' "Yeu have heard It snld, no doubt. . no .two Aneerprlnts ere nlike That is true. It is becaime of that nnt wie cnn make mistakes. All ringers have certain general char acteristics, however, which are first looked for according te the classifica tion? in which the individual ftiu. nnr'net. nt least, thnt it was quite leaslble of adoption everywhere N. Y. Experts Already swaying New System nnd it has new been adopted by their respective countries. Can Use Jergensen i System Anywhere He explained thnt the Jergensen sys tem did net interfere with present bureau systems or ether established methods in any way which nre used locally or nationally in any country. He dlsplaved a iepv of the Dart; logical nnd Alphabetical Register of International Criminals compiled l.y the Bureau of I Distant IdoMtificiitlen. of Copenhagen. I It contains the names of 100 inter inter nntlennllv knAnn ni d feared criminals. Among them nre the cleverest crnnVs In the world persons who reMMiible se strenglv "gentlemen" nnd "Indies" in appearance, manner, education and evi dences of "ulture that no one except these knowing their records would sus pect them Thev are known ns the most lengereus of all criminals. Here is n typical record of n cele-l-inted Ame-ican creek, containing all It i ne i.s,ir te knew te effect his arrest: !i'i (j ( (name emitted) America P.l.Tm 1-7 1 .t 17 M.i'U', (Oil) taiOS),bO B-7 b02,d3, e I - "J fl ' Tins description, cnbled from Phila delphia te Copenhagen or any ether Lurepean capital ImUng the record, would he sufficient te apprehend the man wanted, and Identification would be absolute if he were captured. The Mstem itself, he explains, bee been Indorsed nnd te a large extent ndeptel li these police authorities of Lurote. European Police Officials Indorse the New Cede Mr. Borgcrheff, chief of the Belgian Fingerprint Bureau, who addressed recently the Congress of Medical .Jurls .Jurls tiiiidenee at Brussels en the subject. M. Balthnzard. chief of the Finger print Bureau of the Paris Prefecture of PeUce, who declines International tram-mission of fingerprints in lode dl the utmost Importance. M. I.ecnrd, professor of medical sci ence, Lyens, France. Ilerr Schnelckert, ehlcf 0f Finger print Bureau, Berlin, regarded us a topneteh expert. Mgner utteienghl, professor of crlml- A half-dozen New Yerk expeits nre already taking lemons in the new sys tem frOlll thn inainlmi.. t ,l,rt Ttl.K Party, including Miw Hellner-Nielsen. i1,"""' d chief of finger-print bureau, ..... ...eki-iibi-ii eaid te 1110 jeung woman, ,,,, " . ,: , , , , . . in the writer's presence, that she could ' . U,( distinguished Dan sh party was remain in America te accent police iu- ' ',relK"i i a nerica ier tne pollce con- snif n!..... f . . . . . su fiirnlltl It I r lift Lllnnnul ln A -m :""""" " long na it was neei fu te i; V , i.-nin ui a., j, be a guest for practical purposes, hut ,l,:,,"!' of I.'nvenwer h, Kan., finger- , 1 mat when flushed she would have te ,in u C,V'"V ' " . l1t'"cru' lwn there. -return te linnnm-i, n ....i.i..'. J nnd after ( ommii-slencr Knrlelit h.i ... ford te lese her. learned of the marvelous simplicity and 1't Mr. Jeritense., ..i,i i, , ... ",'",V"." "' "". "wnwx idea, 'l'be Jergensen Mild )m ilnnn..,i - unusual experiment while coming ever e New Yerk. Bcfore leavln? Copen Cepen nm"1!?8 went t0 the lorgest nnd most i uii "f01 of fingerprbit records in .his bureau,, numbering thousands of description of lilvldual bands, q8 ii.? t i-hsb)hiiM-h l,JjMi StaiK'.W. party Is also te attend the conventieu (u iiie imviiiniieuni Aasocjutlen of Per sonal Identification at Bosten. beclnV nlng September 18. They will visit nluralul buu ' ;'''''' T-..' ....,.,, r-,, j j. , r tea .ranrW&: Mvvi; iiUhdi-i- 'jf yvrMtMir nMtnwfcsThiannr ' r( rwm 0 W M w M
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