FREE ELECTRICITY.
INVENTION BY CONVICTS. SPARE-TIME WORK IN GAOL. Two convicts in "Haitimore traol—Frank Allors, a member of a notorious murder .gang, and Raymond Scott, a highwayman —have employed their solitary leisure in (be invention of a hydraulic power plant which is said to produce electricity for almost nothing They received the news in their cells recently that the Government has granted them a patent. Scott, who had large experience in elec-tric-power plants before he tool? to liighwav robbery, supplied the practical knowlodge. Allors, who had made hydraulic power a hobby, was the theorist. Both worked during the day in the prison furniture factory. At night tlicy experimented in (licit cells, being allowed to pass books, plans and blueprints back and forth under supervision of the warders. When all the blueprints were ready they sent thorn to a Washington attorney, who had » working model made, securing the convicts a patent for the dovice, which, they assert, will reduce the o.lco tricity bill" of the gaol from £14,000 to £2OO a year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20272, 4 June 1929, Page 7
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171FREE ELECTRICITY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20272, 4 June 1929, Page 7
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