BURGLAR ADDS TO SCIENCE
PARIS, March 14. Tho recent attempts io loci the Weights and Measures Bureau ui Paris has resulted in gain for that institution. A scientific instrument found on the floor after the hurried departure of the burglar turned out to Ibo an automatic lock detector most ingeniously and skilfully made. Placed over a lock with a lever penetrating the keyhole, the lock detector ■registers on a sliding scale the position and size of every one of tho wards, knowledge in dispensable to the making of false keys. , Export locksmiths declare ■that with the instrument it is possible to make easily and rapidly keys io tit most of the complicated intern safety lock?.
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Evening Star, Issue 18626, 6 May 1924, Page 1
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115BURGLAR ADDS TO SCIENCE Evening Star, Issue 18626, 6 May 1924, Page 1
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