The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-07-16

horse stealer, was arrested III Tampico
Mexico, distance Of 200 miles from
4 Victoria, the scene Of his exploits
When the trial drew near the Judge
I decided that ais Victoria was outside iii.
circuit it would either be necessary for
all the Witnesses to take the journey
Or for the culprit to be returned there
To await the local sessions. AS this
would necessitate a further delay 81
six months the Mexican government au-
thorizcd the hearing OF the evidence
/ BY telephone In this manner the Judge
listened to one Of tho most remarkable
histories of crime on record which re.
ulted in the prisoner receiving sen.
tenee Of ten years penal servitnde. n
diplomacy too the telephone has more
than once played a prominent part, as
was seen four or five years ago, when
it was the means Of bringing about A
change in the Presidency of Salvador
President Cuittercz had q powerful rival
ia Cen Regalada, the head Of the army
and when the revolution broke out the
latter telephoned 20 the palace demand
ING tie Presidents abdication, as the
army had already turned against him.
What reply Guitterez gave to this
strange message is not on record, but
lie left the capital within an hour, never
to return In the same way O strong
Spanish fortress surrendered to the
Cuban General Pablo Olivier at the out
break of the late war in Cuba. When
the general occupied the town adioin-
ing the fortress he telephoned through
70 the Spanish commander demanding
immediate surrender on pain Of bom-
hafdment. An hours armistice was re-
quested and granted, at the end d
which Olivier WAS run up and aequaint
ed with the fact that the fortress, with
1000 men and thirty two guns, was
prepared to surrender Internationally.
And over the telephone wires have
come more than once the sounds Of
tragedies being enacted Not long a90
the news was cabled from New York
that a lady resident Of Wayne county
Iowa, was attacked in her home BY a
tramp She reached the telephone be-
fore she was assaulted ID time 20 call
help. and The central operator heard the
tramp pull her from The telephone He
therefore esta blished telephone c0nnee
lions Win the AHaftht AhtmhNuNt aAA
the listeners, mostly women, heard tho
desperate struggle and despairing cries
Of the woman mingled with the tfamp's
aaths, and then silence. The farmer who
FASTENED TO the iady's assistance az the
first alarm arrived too late and found
her lying unconscious and securely
bound, but her assailant had decamped.
Another case Ia point cropped up few
years ago in Hungary The daughter
Of a postmaster OF Magyar Szernya was
called TO the public telephone when she
heard the voice oi BIER sweetheart, who
from The town han 81 laba telephoned
the alarming message; Would You
like to hear how ] shoot myself
Scarcely we're the words ended when
the girl heard the sound ~ 4 shot; and
subsequent inquiries revealed that the
young man had killed himself in the
he had Indicated. And D while
back very clever and realistic little
play was produced at a London theatre
IN which the central idea was a man
aith the telephone receiver at his ear
listening t0 his wife being murdered n
! room miles away. London Globe.