FILM AS THEFT EVIDENCE.
PARIS, May AD. A cinema lilm may lie produced as evidence in the Assize'Court at. Beauvais, when Kouffer and Sautter are tried on charges of breaking into tint famous Chateau ol Chantilly and stealing the great pink stone known as the Condo diamond and other valuables. Both men confessed alter arrest and were taken hack to Chantilly, where, in accordance with French police practice. the burglary was reconstituted with their aid. A lilm was taken of the reconstitution and it is proposed to show this to the jury, to enable them to form a clear idea of how the burglary was carried out. If the judge allows this it will ho the first time the cinema has served as an adjunct, in a criminal trial.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19270709.2.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
129FILM AS THEFT EVIDENCE. Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1927, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in