Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — SNAPSHOTS AT RIGHT ANGLES [ARTICLE]

SNAPSHOTS AT RIGHT ANGLES

German Scientist Apparently Looks Away From Subject While Taking a Picture. Herr Dr, Welssenberger of Berlin, who is visiting with the German doctors. is somewhat of an amateur detective along scientific lines. Part of his equipment consists of a camera, which Is calculated to deceive even the moot wary subject. Dr. Wefssenbarger has photographed every mam.

ber of the German physicians’ party he wanted to, and none of them knew a thing about it. He lifts what looks like a small telescope to his eye and looks away from the very man he wants to snapshot. His Interest seems to be centered at right angles from the subject, but if the man who is unwittingly photographed chanced to be swift enough be might catch the instant gleam of a powerful little lens set in the side of the rounded barrel of the fake telescope. As the operator ot the camera looks apparently

out to sea, for Instance, the image of thngs beside him are focused clear before him. His finger is on a hair spring and a pressure records what was on the finder. Detectives in Berlin are being equipped with the camera, which costs about |IOO, so finely constructed are they. The success met with in taking suspects for comparison with existing police photographs has proved the value of theverafty little instrument. So deceiving is the apparatus that the reporter who snapped Dr. Weis-

senberger using the camera did not think until afterward when he was told by the doctor that he would exchange pictures with him that he him self had been snapshotted in return.