The most famous case where a murderer was caught by the use of the telegraph was over 110 years ago, that of the transatlantic flight of Dr. Crippen in 1910, when the electro-magnetic device was used to alert the police that he was on board a ship, allowing the police to take a faster ship and be waiting for him on the other side of the Atlantic. But it’s little known that the first murderer to be caught using the wire occurred sixty-five years earlier…
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