Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1920 — FLASHLIGHT OF THIEVES IN ACTION, NEWEST WAY [ARTICLE]

FLASHLIGHT OF THIEVES IN ACTION, NEWEST WAY

In the future burglars and thieves had better beware how they ply their nocturnal trade, as they are liable to be detected in the act, K the invention of a busmess man Ol He a ?s’’j£ Doly, a nf that citv. who has in his possession a perfectly good a netrro boy, whom the ponce are endeavoring to locate who attempted to raid his chicken have visited Doly’s chicken hoiise and some of hrs best fowls have disappeared. to catch the marauder, Mr. Doly rigged up an ingenius scheme. He arranged a kodak in front of th window of his chicken house and Attached it to a flashlight The apparatus was so arranged that the gening of the poultry house window would ignite the flashlight and Snap the kodak. When Mr. Doly visited his chicken house recently he found that the trap had been sprung and on the film in the kodak were the badly scared, hut distinctly visible features of a negro hoy.