GUARD OVER INVENTOR

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 27 June 1935, Page 6

GUARD OVER INVENTOR

WHY POLICE ARE INTERESTED NO LINK WITH RADIO RAY NOT HELD FOR PROTECTION. Responsible police authorities have discounted any suggestion that the police guard on Mr Victor Penny in the Auckland Hospital and at Air Penny’s home at Takapuna had any connection with the alleged discovery ot any radio ray, as has been rumoured. It was learned that their interest had been aroused in possible effects on commercial and official wireless reception of Mr (Penny’s experiments. What these were would be established when Mr Penny was able to leave the hospital. Dr J. W. Craven, medical superintendent at the hospital, said there was no truth in any statement that Mr Fenny was being held in hospital for his protection. He was there solely as a. patient, and the ban on visitors to mm was due to the state of his health.

“The hospital is not a boardinghouse, and as soon as Air Penny is lit ne will be discharged,” Dr Craven said. Mr Penny was admitted to hospital on Wednesday night of last week after it had been reported that he had been attacked at Ill's place of employment, the depot of the North Shore Transport Company, Limited, at Takapuna. No weapon with which Mr Penny might have been assaulted lias so far been found by detectives.