Tapped Service
LjO\V a young man tapped the wires “ of a wireless relayed service with a, pair of earphones and a saucepan was described at Clerkcnvveil Police j Court, England. I Ernest Cash, unemployed, of Edward l Bqnaro, Islington, was lined £1 and £1 Is costs for “ fraudulently-divert-ing electrical energy from the lines of , Wireless Services, Limited.” i The company supply 500 subscribers with broadcast programmes. Wires are fitted to tlicir houses and a subscriber simply plugs in a loud-speaker. J A copper wire—which frequently I short-circuit ed subscribers —was found I fixed to a junction box. The other eml led to Cash’s room, where frames j from a pair oi earphones were lilted to a saucepan to make a loud-speakei. i
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 10
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122Tapped Service Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 10
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