The first wireless manhunt…

In the age of digital everything, information on anything or anyone is a mere tap or text away.  But it wasn’t always that easy.  At one point in history, everything was wireless – because wires weren’t needed for the technology of the day.

Atlas Obscura recounts the manhunt of accused murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen… who was apprehended with wireless telegraph and bowler hat cameras.

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