THIEF FOUND OUT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 12

THIEF FOUND OUT.

TOOK PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF At Wood Green (London), on August 4, Frederick William Barnwell, 30, a plumber, of Palace Gates Road, Wood Green, was charged with stealing two hen’s eggs from a fowlhouse on an allotment at Powys Lane, Palmers Green. Detective Skardon, giving evidence of arrest, produced three photographs of the accused in the fowlhouse, and when asked how they were taken, replied, “Taken by the prisoner himself.” , , Robert Norburv, the prosecutor, of Whittington Road, Bowes Park, said that he had lost property from the fowlhouse and suspected Barnwell, who worked the next allotment. He fixed a camera in the fowlhouse, and some days later found that a picture had been taken. He took the spool home and developed a picture of the accused. There was no doubt it was lie, and the witness took the developed picture to the police. When arrested the accused man said, “I must have been a fool. I don’t know what made me do it. The Magistrate (Sir William Rice) bound over Barnwell. It is stated that there was considerable ingenuity in the method Mr Norbury employed. He had arranged it so that with the entrance of a person into the fowlhouse the shutter of the camera would open. Once inside, there was a second device which produced a click. At that the man turned his face towards where the camera rested and the photograph was taken,.