One M. Le Roux demonstrated the value of the X-ray in detecting
smuggled goods recently at the New York custom-house:
With every country using the X-ray at the custom-house and
post-office smuggling would soon cease, for there seems to be
no way to fool this little agent. Every means of baffling it
were tried at M. Le Roux’s test. Articles were wrapt in many
thicknesses of paper and woolen fabrics, and they were hidden
in all sorts of queer places, but once the X-ray got busy they
might just as well have shouted out their whereabouts, for not
a single hidden article escaped detection.--_The Technical
World Magazine._
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The high prices of meat were indirectly responsible for
the arrest of Elmer McClain, a workman in a local factory,
in Kokomo, Ind. At the noon-hour McClain sat down with his
lunch-pail among his fellow employees and brought forth a piece
of fried chicken. The presence of such a high-priced article
of food in the lunch-pail of a man of McClain’s circumstances
created much comment among the other workmen.
The report spread to the street, and in a little while had been
circulated throughout the city, finally reaching the ears of
Schuyler Stevens, who had lost some chickens by theft the night
before.
Stevens informed the police, who, after an investigation,
arrested McClain, who admitted that he had stolen four pullets
from Stevens.
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See EVIDENCE, PROVIDENTIAL; THEFT, A CHECK ON.