TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.

Mataura Ensign, 4 July 1914, Page 5

TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.

I • RICH LADY SHOT. BT IL2CTRIO TBMQEAPH OOPTRISHT TIMES AND SYDNEY B*ON SERVICES. . Received July 4, 8.30 a.m. NEW, YOiHiTv, July 3. Dr Carmen, a fashionable physician, maintains that he i s ignorant* in regard to who shot lii-s Bailey, a rich patient, in his rooms. The police discovered that Mrs Carmen had installed a detectaphone in her husband's rotmi, suspecting his relations with patients. Finding that her suspicions were groundless she removed the detectaphone on the niglil of the murder in order to prevent her husiband knowing how she had spied upon him. Dancing balls of carbon imprisoned within a circular vest pocket size aluminum box I threaten to destroy the indoor secrecy': of the world Estates\ the ; 'New York Sun,'). •' ' • They are a highly nervous lot, these capering balls of cartoon. Xo matter ■what .sound occurs within an indoor area, they leap and hop and tremble and shiver to catch -the accompanying vibration and transmit it simultaneously to expectant listeners. You cannot whisper.but these little dancing balls will 'pulsate inquisitively and rjiss the whisper on to those secreted in the adjoining room. You cannot sneeze, you cannot cough, you; cannot yawn, you cannot snore, you cannot laugh' but the dancers will scamper about, assimilate each particular noise and report it forthwith to their magnetic headquarters. When it comes to* ordinary talkinpvoit might as ■well.go outdoors first as / •last if you wish absolute privacy. It is your only chance that your talk wil 1 not be overheard nowadays. Wherevi there.are walls and ceilings, there the, listening dancing balls may have full control. And they village gossip everything straight to their employers. In short the detectaphone is "the X-ray of accusing and conviotinp sound. It penetrates everywhere. It is not baulked by brick and olaster impediment.