Punch,  17 (1849), 114.

Swift and Sure

Anon

Genre:

Illustration, Drollery; Notes, Drollery

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

N, pseud.  [William Newman] *

Subjects:

Telegraphy, Electricity, Invention, Crime


    Implicitly responding to the 'telegraphic' capture of the fleeing murderer, John Tawell, holds that the electric telegraph 'can no longer be described in the words of Horace "Pede poenna claudo"'. The illustration shows a line of telegraph posts that are transformed into running policemen, the first of which extends its 'arms' or wires to catch a fleeing criminal.



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