Annual Influx Of Bad Men To
Ketchikan Will Find City Police
Ready With Finger Print System
“Wanted” men will do
well to steer clear of Ketch
ikan in the future—or at
least to be on their good
behavior while in that city.
Chances of their passing
undetected are becoming
smaller, especially this
year with the municipal
police department having
recently set up a finger
print identification system.
The system includes an
exchange of lists of “want
ed” characters with other
cities of the United States
and also a man trained in
identifying by means of fin
gerprinting. Claud Aiken,
patrolman who has interest
ed himself in the study of
fingerprint identification
for several years, has gain
ed recognition with his
work and authority— but
not finances—to go ahead
with it recently was grant
ed by the city council’s po
lice committee.
In addition to having the
aid of other police depart
ments in the fingerprinting
system in listing “wanted”
characters or men who have
criminal records, the local
department has also estab
lished working agreements
with the federal bureau of
investigation—the bureau
that puts out the G-men
who are so feared by the
underworld.
Ketchikan, incidentally,
is believed to be the only
city in Alaska to have such
a system in its municipal
police work.
As the first city in the
Territory and the port of en
try for the large majority
of persons coming to Alas
ka, the innovation is seen
as particularly valuable
here. In the past Ketchi
kan has been something of
a “dumping ground” for
the riff raff of the north
west states, being especial
ly attractive to men want
ing to get out of sight.
Steamer tickets of such
men are most often made
out only as far as Ketchi
kan because of low financ
es and the port has in the
past had an unuually large
number of undesirables, of
ficers state. The coming
spring is apt to see even
more of this sort of thing
than before and the finger
printing system is one of
the things the local depart
ment is employing to mini
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mize unwelcome develop
ments because of it.
By using the fingerprint
ing system police can es
tablish the identity of ques
tionable persons over night
of they are wanted. Such
a person is fingerprinted,
the results, classified in a
simplified identification
method and the resulting
description is radioed to
clearing offices in Washing
ton.
There a check through
the files that are made up
of police contributions
from all over the United
States readily and speedily
“tells on” the person in
question. If he is wanted,
his fingerprint classifica
tion will be found in the re
cords in a matter of minut
es and a radiogram will an
swer the focal officer jsi
question.
The same applies to men
who have criminal records
or who have been investi
gated on suspicion of crime.
Officer Aiken has already
made use of the system to
good advantage and estab
lished the indentity of sev
eral persons picked up here
for various counts. In all
cases, however, the local
wrong-doings of men in the
past have been the only
ones that brought them
trouble. In most cases they
proved to be ex-convicts.
It has been estimated
that between 50 and 60
men with more or le-s ser
ious criminal records were
in Ketchikan last summer.
Many of them who had
completed penitentiary sen
fences while others were
still on parole. Although
the majority were engaged
in seasonal work here some
of them remained over the
winter.
At the present time the
city police are providing
their own fingerprinting
! equipment which is by no
(means complete but they
: hope that city councilmen
will see sufficient benefit
from it to encourage them
in granting funds to obtain
further equipment.
All in all however the lo
cal force is prepared to
meet the spring invasion of
parolees and ex-convicts as
completely as possible.
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mittee , had no report to,
make. When questioned
by Councilman Polet if he!
bad anything to report on
the matter of the city coun
cil hiring a special patrol
man. and if he had inter
viewed any one person on
the subject since the last1
meeting, he replied that he
did not believe it was neces
sary at this time.
Councilman Polet reiter
ated his statements of two
weeks ago that he believed
it was necessary for the
council to put a patrolman
on in order to strengthen
the fire department, in
stead of weakening it.
Councilman Seidenverg
beleived that the matter
should be investigated or
dropped intirely. It was
finally decided that a com
mittee be appointed and
Mayor protem Sather ap
pointed Counci linen Hagen
and Seidenverg to look into
the matter and report at
the next meeting.
Councilman Seidenverg
moved and it was duly sec
onded that the offer of Mrs
K. Turner of $75 for a cer
tain lot on Stedman avenue
be accepted, which receiv
ed the approval of the cou
ncil.
City Clerk Walsh brought
up the question of the city
of Nome making a donation
to the Red Cross for the
flood sufferers in the states.
Upon motion of Council
man Polet duly seconded
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