CATCHING ROGUES BY MACHINERY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3355, 3 January 1927, Page 8

CATCHING ROGUES BY MACHINERY.

A pistol which photographs the person at whom the bullet is aimed; and a camera which,' invisible to evil-doors, will snapshot them as they crack safes, hold-up bank cashiers or steal motor cars. These are the latest devices put forward here in the war on crime. With the pistol ig a tiny camera attachment which r Vovks with the pressure of the trigger. Magnesium mixed with Die charge makes night photography possible, according to its inventor, who suggests that a key special to each camera ease should be kept by the Police Department. A shot Iked in; the direction of a criminal would produce his portrait, even if the shot missed him, says the inventor. It would show what ho was doing and whether hi! was armed. Motor ears in which criminals sought to escape could be photographed, witlfe .their numbers. ■ . “The hidden- watchman camera” is enclosed in steel, and can be made invisible in a wall \yhotSe surface is blank or in an article of furniture, or in any other convenient object. It can he operated by the pressure of a button in any part of a building, or automatically through an attachment to a safe-door knob or to a mat or in a hundred other ways unguossed by the intruder. In the 9ase of a stolen motor car—the ovner on leaving it having turned on a switch—the invisible camera would photograph (lie illegitmato driver or thief ivithoiit his knowing it. I hen the camera woidd drop to the roadray, where a gong attachment would au.omatically go ding-dong to call the attention of passers by.