DIVORCE CASES
As everyone knows, thousands of divorce actions are brought every year throughout the country and many detectives find employment in connection with such cases. The custom is that when the husband, for instance, suspects his wife of infidelity, he has her placed under surveillance for a month or so, which usually develops whether or not his suspicions are well founded. However, information and corroborativeevidence is obtained by the husband, or by the wife, as the case may be, in a hundred other ways. While detective work of this nature has no doubt always been profitable to detectives, my opinion is that it has never been any too creditable, and my advice to the detective is to keep as clear of this kind of work as possible, because such cases require skillful work and handling, and often when handled successfully, the results do not offset the undesirable notoriety that may be given the detective.
ARSON
As is quite well known, the fire losses in the United States run annually into millions of dollars, and if one would take the trouble to have half an hour’s talk with any fire insurance expert it will be found that a surprisingly large percentage of fires are no doubt the results of schemes to defraud fire insurance companies. Much detective work is directed in an effort to lessen these losses, and to bring about the arrest and conviction of the offenders, but my knowledge of conditions is that the crime of arson continues on the increase rather than on the decrease.
Life and accident insurance companies throughout the country employ hundreds of detectives the year round to investigate risks and fraudulent claims. Many individuals somewhere daily place in the hands of private detectives, various kinds of cases to be investigated, and in conclusion I will say that when a case is submitted to the detective for investigation it should be made the subject of careful thought and consideration. As a rule, every case differs in some way, but if good common sense methods are applied, results can be secured, no matter how difficult or how complicated the case may be at the start.
FINGER PRINTSSIMPLIFIED
A New Handbook of the Science of Finger PrintIdentification
By JAMES HOLT
CONTENTS
I The Uses of Finger Prints:—Banking—Military Uses—Family Records—Loss of Identity—Criminal Work—Opportunities for Students.II Finger Print Future:—The Probationary Period—Check Protection—Pensions—Wills—Business Identification—Criminal Identification—Offsetting Circumstantial Evidence.III Making and Reading Finger Prints:—Types of Prints—Articles Needed—How to Take Prints—Ridges and Depressions—Types or Patterns—Type Distribution—Care in Taking Prints—Symbols Used in Finger Prints.IV Classification of Finger Prints:—How to Produce Formulas—Method of Forming Primary Classification—Sub-Classification—Lettered Formula—Classification Rules—Second Sub-Classification—Final Classification—Classifying Broken Sets—Ring Finger Count.V Filing, Searching and Comparing:—Order of Filing—Searching Files.VI Review Questions and Answers.
I The Uses of Finger Prints:—Banking—Military Uses—Family Records—Loss of Identity—Criminal Work—Opportunities for Students.
II Finger Print Future:—The Probationary Period—Check Protection—Pensions—Wills—Business Identification—Criminal Identification—Offsetting Circumstantial Evidence.
III Making and Reading Finger Prints:—Types of Prints—Articles Needed—How to Take Prints—Ridges and Depressions—Types or Patterns—Type Distribution—Care in Taking Prints—Symbols Used in Finger Prints.
IV Classification of Finger Prints:—How to Produce Formulas—Method of Forming Primary Classification—Sub-Classification—Lettered Formula—Classification Rules—Second Sub-Classification—Final Classification—Classifying Broken Sets—Ring Finger Count.
V Filing, Searching and Comparing:—Order of Filing—Searching Files.
VI Review Questions and Answers.
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
Cloth Binding. 135 Pages. Price, postpaid, $1.25
FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO., Publishers
CHICAGO
Transcriber’s Notes:Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation and spelling inaccuracies were silently corrected.
Archaic and variable spelling has been preserved.
Variations in hyphenation and compound words have been preserved.