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Identifier: belltelephonemag18amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ve, central depositories for records of thevarious police departments and penal institutions in each state.Here are kept the records of criminals, their photographs,finger-print classifications, aliases, and the extensive modusoperandi files in which the characteristic methods of knowncriminals are described. Teletypewriter connections to theBureaus from the Eight-State network flash annually to thepolice thousands of clues through which criminals are identi-fied, apprehended and eventually convicted. Also, in connec-tion with criminal identification, the police make use of Tele-typewriter Exchange Service ( TWX) to furnish informa-tion to the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, orto receive information from that Bureau. 166 THE TELETYPEWRITER HELPS THE POLICE TRENTON NJ GB- SSI 7-16 PM FEB 9 WANTED FOR HIT AND RUNOCCUPANTS. OF A PACKARD TOURING CARREG. S-A4972 STRUCK AND INJURED A WOMAN AT SCOBEYVILLE NJ ABOUT 6-15 PM THISDATE ANY INFORMATION NOTIFY STATE POLICE KEYPORT NJ
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TRENTON NJ RE GB SSI 8-12 PM FEB 9 CANCELATION WANTED FOR HIT AND RUNOCCUPANTS OF CAR REG. 8-A-ft972 NY apprehended by uoodbridge twp. nj policeauthority state police woodbridge nj Apprehension by Woodbridge, New Jersey, Municipal Police of a Hit and RunCar wanted by the State Police of Keyport. Illustrating the path of the alarmwhich intercepted the hit and run car, and the action of the various police groupsinvolved. 167 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY Private line teletypewriter systems enable the police to cancel alarms at hundreds of points by the same simpleprocess as that through which the original alarms were sent out.Thus, much useless expense and dangerous police work hasbeen saved, for the police must vigorously prosecute each caseon which there is an outstanding uncanceled, that is, unsolvedalarm. An example of the necessity for the alarms to be can-celed on closed police cases to all other police points, is the notuncommon situation in which an automobile has been reportedstolen

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