Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Pathe
10661
SR003883_01_02.mov
1/1/1932
A New Jersey State policeman uses sight identification to describe a criminal
A movie cameraman with two men standing at a backdrop with a microphone overhead / SOT a New Jersey State Policeman stands next to a criminal (presumably Edward Donovan) and talks about sight identification; he asks Donovan a series of questions; he lists physical characteristics of Edward Donovan who was captured in Ewing Township for holdup and robbery / He was born in Passaic on 1904, works as a laborer, four years in grammar school, he knows why he was arrested and he's never committed any crimes but the record says he's been arrested for robbery four times, served in state and county prisons / "Edward Donovan is not particular about his dresses usually wearing a sweater, he is a former prizefighter...He smokes, drinks beer and never drinks any hard liquor, he frequencies dancehalls and pool rooms; CU he has a normal face, rough features, brown hair, thin on top, florid complexion, blue eyes...pug nose, square chin, a light sandy beard, wide mouth, two front upper teeth fakes...straight ears, defective hearing-slightly deaf / Note: year not known
Edward Donovan
United States
New Jersey
West Trenton

Keywords

archival
newsreel
New Jersey State Police
identification
criminals
arrests
robberies
descriptions
crime
microphones
movie cameras
cameramen
studios
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