Show SORT POLICE who have been aided by a defective measuring machine york tune 0 an investigation has been started by the civil service board and of police greene into a charge first inside anat the machine which has been used at headquarters for years for measuring applicants for the force is defective if the machine is as far wrong aa alleged there may be found to be many policemen on the force too short for their jobs according ta an official inspection spec tion of tho machine it appears that the apparatus can be w manipulate that a roan being measured can add half nn inch height which necessarily mastbe five freet seven and a half inches it is asserted scheme has been found possible whereby the showing that the person being inoa Aured ia standing squarely on his heels can bo manipulated by the pressure from one heel enabling the applicant to raise himself a trifle beyond his true height |