BURGLAR ALARM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21855, 18 July 1934, Page 8

BURGLAR ALARM

UNUSUAL RECEIVING SET - INVENTOR AT COURT A case of special interest to wireless enthusiasts was decided in a Sydney „pourt lately when Lionel Hart, of Bondi, was proceeded against on a charge of using an appliance capable of receiving wireless messages, without a licence. After hearing the evidence, the magistrate, Mr. McMahon, S.M., said he would give defendant the benefit of the doubt, and he dismissed the information. James David Lamond, acting-wireless licensing inspector of the PostmasterGeneral's Department, said that he saw a wireless appliance in the ant's bedroom at a hotel on May 18. It had four valves, and defendant tuned it in to a local wireless station. Defendant told witness that he had the set in -partnership with a Mr. Davis. Defendant, who pleaded not guilty, said he was using the hotel room at the time to give demonstrations of a new wireless invention for the detection of crime. It was a device which kept on sending out signals, giving the ' address of any particular place which was being burgled. When one waved His hand toward it, said defendant, it produced music. It was while a certain part of the appliance was being completed that it was discovered that it was possible to receive wireless messages on it.' The device had never boon ÜBcd as a receiver, said defendant, and it was never intended to be one. Parts used in the device had been taken from a set belonging to Mr. Davis, at the home of the latter at Bondi, and -for which a licence had been issued. The receiving part of the invention had been dismantled. Defendant said that he was a musical director, and did radio research work. He had told the inspector that the device was a burglar alarm, and that it would operate on the approach of a person. It could not be approached within 7ft. without being caused to ring*