The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-03
In New York
By MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE

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 New York, Sept D. Aubrey J. Drummond and his staff members are really detective photographers, although that isn't what they call themselves. They deal, they will tell you. in evidential photography. For instance, they did a lot of photographing of the handwriting of Bruno Hauptmann, when the famous trial was on.
 They took hundreds of pictures of the doomed Moro Castle, of the radio room, the dining room and the deck space that passengers had to cover to reach the life boats. It was Drummond's picture of bull let marks that got Henry Hoffman free after he had been in jail five years of a murder charge. And remember the Hall-Mills case Drumnond photographed Willie Stevens famous finger print.
 Sometimes the Drummond pie But occasionally they help them out. There was the time taxicab driver plunged to his death right through a flimsy iron raid at the dead end of a street that dropped sharply forty feet down into a handball court. MT. Drummond walked down the hill and saw that the lights gave the impression that the street went right on. His pie ture showed the situation and while it was too late to do anything for the dead taxicab driver, the jury awarded the widow and eight chill ages. Cinema Sleuths.
 Nowadays the Drummond men take a good many motion pictures. They are often called upon by in- surance companies to follow some- body around who says he is sick and can't work and wants to col lect sick insurance. The pictures, taken unbeknownst to the subject, sometimes tells another story.
 Once MT. Drummond had a guard of eight men. That was when he was carrying little in- significant-loking piece of paper to be photographed for insurance records. The slip was 8 U. s. Treasury check fo rone billion dollars made to the Federal Re- serve Bank of New York.
 Model Behavior.
 Diana Thorne, who has drawn more than five thousand dogs since she became a famous portrayer of these animals for magazine covers and illustrations, says most dogs are not as clever as they are given credit for being. At least good many of her models have been pretty dumb. Beautiful but dumb, she insists.
 Pat, for instance. Pat had so much Tt" that people stopped to look at him in the street but he liked all the wrong people, had a perfect passion for tramps and | buns, suspected the milk man, parked at the gas inspector and chewed holes in the postman's s trousers.
 One day when he had been left to keep an eye on things, Miss Thorne came home to find that her studio had been broken into and thoroughly robbed. Pat, look ing thoroughly pleased with him. self, was guarding pile of articles that the burglar had left behind as not important enough to take. When the robber was caught, he relatde that Pat had followed him about from room to room sniffing delightedly and begging to be pet ted.
 Bunny, another of Miss Thorne's most illustrious models. eats nails and electric wires. He also likes plugs, tacks and cigars. Min, a cocker spaniel who brought her owner hundreds of dollars, could never hear anybody singing in the bathtub or on the radio without joining in. Neighbors moved and landlords complained but Min sang on-if you could call 1t singing.