Word: faurot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joseph Arthur Faurot, 59 and now retired from the New York City police force where in 1906 he introduced the standard system of fingerprint classification, invented the new clean fingerprinting. Dr. William Heinecke, Manhattan chemist, developed the chemical details. They hope to make money from sales of the pad and paper, for U. S. police and jailers alone fingerprint some 3,000 new prisoners daily, and by no means all finger-printing is criminological. Soldiers, sailors and Marines have their prints made routinely; also all Federal and many civil service employes. One of every 20 applicants for Federal service...