The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1913-06-14
WORLDWIDE USE
OF FINGER PRINTS
System Should Be Universal,
Says Argentine Expert.
NOT ONLY FOR CRIMINALS.

Or. Vueetieh, Who Perfected Modern
System Of Identification, Would Ex-
tend lts Use TO include Every In
dvidual-Would Prove invaluable In
Many Cases, He Asserts.
Every large city should have great
central department. OF identification.
not merely for criminals. but for every
one OF its inhabitants, I'm the opinion
OF Dr. Juan vucetich, chief Of the bu-
reaus OF identification OF the province
OF Buenos Aires and Of the Argentine
war department, who is now in this
country
DR.. Vucetlch Is the originator OF the
first complete system OF finger print
Identification, and he asserts that II Is
his system, with notifications, which
is IN use throughout the world today.
He says that even Bertlllon, who APP
piled anthropometry TO criminal iden-
tihcation, has adopted his system I'm
spite OF the fact that Bertillon two
years after DIR. Yucetch had success
fully inaugurated his own system In
the city Of La Plata, Argentina. said
that a system OF finger print identih-
cation was impracticable.
Dr. yucetlch asserted that the Amer
lean idea in regard to the system OF
Identification was all wrong. We re-
gard IL as stamping as as criminals 60
have a complete Identification OF our
selves in existence, he said.
He pointed out that. the description
OF every citizen OF Buenos Aires was
recorded on the government records
and that I'm the office OF the minister OF
war and the minister OF the interior
there were on Ale 100000 Identified
lions, which were used not necessarily
for criminal, but for military and polit-
Zeal purposes.
System, OF Identification.
IL invented my system OF Identified
ton twenty-five years ago, said DIR.
vucetich In giving an outline of his
life work. "At that time / was chief
OF the bureau of Identification In La
Plata. Argentina. IL had been recon
mended TO me that study the various
systems OF Identification in use and
adopt the best | discovered there was
no system in existence but what was
deficient. There arose Instances "a
which none would respond. What In.
terested me most was Bertillon's an.
thropometric system. | found it was
not sufficient. At that time maya
zine, the French Revue scienthque,
fell into my hands. That was on the
I'd OF May, 1891. 1t contained an arti.
Gle on Papillary Lines In the Hands,
in which the author went on 10 show
that these varied in different persons
The article referred 10 some studies
Mr.. Cation OF London had made, which
l believe went TO prove that the differ
ences were due 20 heredity. Cation
drew his conclusions from the use OF
only the finger and the thumb. ] got
the idea OF applying the test to all the
fingers Of the hand.
IL had many criminals at my dispo
sltion. started In using printers ink
10 get my impressions. Here" added
Or. vueetich, producing big card, lis
the first finger print identification made
in the world. You see it is dated Sept.
i, 1891 The FIRST man so Identified
was a prisoner in La Plata named
Francisco Carchulo. | kept up my ex-
perimenting until in 1907 was able to
announce that had perfected my sys-
TEN. Previous 10 that time, however
my finger prints had thousands OF times
proved their efficiency.
First TO Adopt H.
"As early MS 1903 | was in communl.
cation with I4ombroso, the celebrated
Italian criminologist, and he made ref.
erence 10 my system In some OF his pa
pers. The Argentine government was
the first 10 adopt my system, and rs
example was almost Immediately fol
lowed by the other South American
countries. Since then almost every
country in the world has adopted Il IN
some form OF other.
81 am surprised and somewhat dis.
appointed TO find here that identified
ton seems 70 be regarded altogether
from the point OF view Of the criminal
that Is to say. an ordinary man APP
p0arA. 70 tlask X u DISGRACE 10 be ON