THEIR OWN TRAP
:.. A;new invention in use at the lead PosC Office in Essen, in Germany, for tho 'catching of thieves and bandits helped a thief to escape recently^ The invention consists ■ of an ■ apparatus which doses all doors as soon as an. alarm is given. When an assistant gave the alarm on the occasion in question the thief had already gained the street, and all would-be pursuers •were locked securely behind him. "When the doors were eventually reopened, the thief -had disappeared. - i .'■;■'. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 17
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84THEIR OWN TRAP Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 17
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