HEARTLESS HOAX.
MISUSE OF THE TELEPHONE. The Leicester police were recently investigating a particularly heartless hoax. The telephone operator at a local timber works received a call from a man who said ho was a policeman, and inquired if a Miss Adams worked there. The operator said she did, and tho caller then said : " Plase tell her her mother is dead. She has been murdered. Tell Miss Adams to come homo at once." Tlio operator told tho manager, who ordered a motor-car so that Miss Adams could be taken home at once. Miss Adams, before she left, was told as gently as possible the nature of the telephone messago that had been received. She was naturally greatly distressed. Tho motor-car had reached tho street next to that in which Miss Adams lives when, to her joy, she saw her mother walking along the pavement. Miss Adams later said that she had not the slightest idea of tho identity of the hoaxer. %
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 2 (Supplement)
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