We are used to seeing in the networks articles of the type "the worst serial killer", "the greatest thief of jewels or works of art", or "the most beautiful woman of the nineteenth century", but how about one that combine aesthetics and crime? This is the case of this article of Lifestyle where we will talk about the most photogenic criminal of the nineteenth century.
The most photogenic criminal of the nineteenth century
His story does not it may be simpler, Daniel Joseph Tohill was born in a suburb of Dunedin (New Zealand) called Ravensbourne, in 1881, being the third in a family of 18 children ; He lost his mother when he was young, because of a heart attack while running trying to reach a train, although his death was also attributed to the excessive burden of the 18 boys.In 1903, at age 22, he married Frances Anna O'Kane, also from New Zealand and with whom he had three children.
So far it would be a normal life in a thriving 19th-century English colony, if it weren't because we know its history thanks to its criminal record , and an exhibition of police photographs held at the New Zealand Police Museum in 2012, entitled: "Looking at suspects: 19th-century police photographs", belonging to this museum and that go from 1886 to 1908.
Tohill, whose last name is misspelled in the photograph ("Lohill"), apparently committed a misdemeanor a few years after getting married, which dragged him to a sentence short because he already had a record.
Although he was arrested for stealing a choker and a bicycle, I end up with a 6 month sentence because I had already been charged with other minor robberies in warehouses and warehouses at the train station.After completing his sentence, Tohill was reformed, he moved to Auckland with his family and he and his wife died in 1950.But his story does not end there.
Just over 100 years after he was captured and resigned by the police, the curator of the exhibition "Looking at suspects" used his photo to promote the exposure through the networks, generating an unexpected effect: that of being considered the most photogenic criminal of the 19th century, at least in that country and in some social networks.

We copied some comments caused by the police image of Tohill, so that get an idea of the impact that his photography caused on social networks:
-“I imagine that his crime was stealing c prayers ”
-“ He was arrested for being too sexy for his time ”
-“ Arrested because it caused all the panties to fall to the ground and could cause trips ”.
It would be curious to know what Daniel Joseph Tohill (or his beloved) would have thought of the reaction caused by a photograph taken in one of the worst moments of his life, and that that would make him another ghost beyond social networks And in the most photogenic criminal of the nineteenth century.What do you think, seeing his image? Has your current appearance impacted you too?
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