THIEF CAUGHT
TOOK HIS OWN PHOTOGRAPH LONDON, October 9. A photograph of a man in a fowlhouse was produced in Court when Frederick William Barnhill, of Wood Green, London, was charged with stealing two eggs from a fowlliouse on an allotment. Asked how the photograph was taken, a detective replied, “Taken by the prisoner himself” Mr William Norbury, said that owing to losses from his fowlliouse he fixed a camera which worked automatically. Barnhill pleaded guilty and was bound over.
The Magistrate complimented Mr Norbury on his ingenuity, and remarked to the police inspector: “Have you a vacancy in the force for a young man of promise?” “T must have him round at my place,” he added. Mr Norbury arranged his camera, so that when any entered the fowlhouse the shutter of the camera would open. A second device produced a click Thereupon the man turned his face toward the camera and the protograph was taken.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1933, Page 7
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