Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1895. COGITATION

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1750, 13 July 1895, Page 2

Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News AND UPPER THAMES ADVOCATE.

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1895. COGITATION

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“He that calleth a thing into his mind < whether by impression or records- - 1 \ tion, cogitateth and considereth ; '■ and he that employeth the faculty ■ of his fancy'also cogitateth.” ;: . Lobo Bacon. The camera has often played an important part in the detection of crim- • inals, and as the time goes

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on its usefulness in this direction will'probably, be largelyincreased.A.rather

euiious instance of the valuable assist- , ance which photographs give to the police was made public in Vienna recently. Some" months previously* among the passengers on board an Austrian-Lloyd steamer travelling between' Hong Kong and Japan, was a inan who called himself Baron Wolf? and an Englishman named Bullock. The latter: had in his possession thi ee £lO bank notes' of the British Linen Company, and by some means the alleged Baron got hold of these. When he landed in'Japan he went to ana.tive engraver and tried to indiico him to imitate the notes and signature, but the wily, Jap apparently had hia suspicions aroused, ‘ and instead of fulfilliiig the order he communicated the circumstances to the police. The latter , would have been unable to take action but for the .fact that by some lucky chance Mr <B ullock had surreptitiously taken, ai snap-sKap* photograph of his fellow-passenge” by means of a detective camera, - ' and with this in' their ' possession the Japanese police .were 'able to "a: r" 'st the £< Baron,” and'‘sub sequcnfely extradite-, him to Austria, where he was discovered to Be an ordinary individual of the ‘name' of Gruner. By some hair-splitting jLegal distinction he was found guilty, not t of stealing tha notes, hutßffi: ‘ : conceal> ing and appropriating property, \ which, however, was deemed' a sufficiently serious offence to entitle him to three years’ imprisonment. • In. that .period he will no doubt have leisure in which to think a lot a hard' things .abqut the “camera fiend.”