A DETECTIVE IN DISGUISE.
Mr Bolas (says the Oamaru Mail) has devised a little apparatus which may well be termed a detective camera. To all appearances it looki like a shoe-black's block, a rough square-shaped box, which may be slung over the shoulder with a strap or rested upon the pavement if need be. In fact, when wanted for work it is put down on the ground. It carries gelatine plates already in position, with a lens that is in focus for any distance from 20 to 30 feet. The camera may be used without the least fear of discovery. It may be dropped in the street in the middle of the pavements, before a shop, upon a bridge, any time the owner sees a group he wants a picture of. As the box touches the ground, a bulb is squeezed, and the exposure is made. We have seen an instantaneous sketch taken on board a steamer of two men by the paddle-box, one of them rubbing his forehead in the most unconscious manner, while the other relates some story or incident.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3825, 1 April 1881, Page 1
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182A DETECTIVE IN DISGUISE. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3825, 1 April 1881, Page 1
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