ALLEGED BURGLAR
PHOTOGRAPHED NEAR SAFE. AN AUTOMATIC EXPOSURE. One of the most extraordinary photographs ever taken is being circulated by New Zealand police in the search for a burglar who blew open and robbed a post office safe last month. The photograph has also been sent to Australia, where its publication aroused great interest. Taken by an automatic camera specially set up by postal officials, the photograph shows a man. gloved and torch in hand, near the safe. The shutter was released by the breaking of a ray across the room, unknown to the alleged burglar, who, working with great car, left no other clues that might reveal his identity. Sydney detectives could not recall any Australian incident even remotely similar. Some Sydney firms have considered installing such photographic apparatus, but it has always been considered an uneconomic venture, when the cost is considered beside the chances of it ever being “fired.” “It is certainly a million-to-one chance,” said a Sydney detective. At Fort Wane (Indiana) this year a series of robberies was cleared up when a hidden camera photographed a 17-year-old youth.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 5
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183ALLEGED BURGLAR Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 5
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