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Show ed. when he took the stand and boasted that "policies of the police df-prmment are under my control." Siecltet had been advised by City ALtorney Erwin P. Werner that fingerprinting of misdemeanor suspects is illegal and should be abandoned. Steckel admitted that he ignored the advice. The jury' verdict means that, persons per-sons fingerprinted by officers of California police departments, when arrested or even convicted of misdemeanors, are entitled to recover damages. The decision was the first of its kind in California. COSSACKS ! MUST PA Y TEACHER! LOS ANORLES T,os Angeles ! policemen, who have a fondness for fingerprint ing citizens, huvt begun to find their illegal pleasure costly. A superior court jury recently ordered Chief Roy Rtnokel to pay $'2t(i damages to Earl Paiker. a high school teacher, because the chief and his policemen insist ed upon taking the teachers' finger- j prints. i Threp officers were also ordered to pay Parser on moires of 510 each, j Parker, last year, was ordered to pay a $100 fine on a battery case, i A bench warrant, requiring his J presence in court, was sprved . upon him by a policeman. The teacher was hauled off to jail and fingerprinted against his ', will. He offered to pay the fine. but the police would not hear of i it until Parker was made a full-I full-I fledged member of the Rogues' ' Gallery society. I A jury heard the ca.se. S. S. ' Hahn, noted criminal attorney, wns i Pa rker's counsel. I Steckel placed himself liable for j the heavier damages, Hahn explain- |