Policemen have been the victims of so many' traffic accidents at night time recently at Mulhouse, Alsace-Lorraine, that the municipality has supplied them with red “tail-lights,” which they wear suspended from their belts at the back. They are powerful lamps, and are three in number.
A. thief at Brighton, England, has been caught blue-handed in the act by the use of a chemical dye' which only betrays its presence when the hands which have touched it are washed. There are few pigments that cannot be removed by the use of chemicals. The trouble of the thief in such cases is that he does not know what chemical to use.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 19
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