El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-07

nous COLLINS to Fer the dictagrapnu a ~
- sou uoh watch out" 1t makes - in the
Uols eIs1Ilon sure only in a small OOd' A.
middle Of the ocean.
Starting out as purely business apparatus ~
make dlctation easier. Detective Burns, WIN lH
acumen that has made him the foremost OF an! .
lcln detectives. saw its possibilities lOE setIlnS
evidence against criminals. Since men Ne has I'u
many lmltatOTS, and its manufacturers no" AaAS
a regular detective apparatus. The transLniIleI
is so small that it can be placed almost anywhere
without attracting notice Imitation stones even
are made with the dictagraph inside them ana
these placed inside the prisons enable the WARDEN
to hear everything that is said in the cells .Ihe
famous Ear Of DiOcletian, the Roman prison Wnlcn
was built that the voices of the prisoners were
carried into the Governors rooms enabling MIN
to hear all that was being said was colossal and
cumbrous fOrerunner Of the modern instrument
which can be carried around in pocEeL 1t can
be set behind the wallpaper or hidden under
desk
The detectives who rugged it up for Mr.. Falla-
bonn attached it to the back Of piano!
Suspicious Mr., Fallabom sought the advice OF
Edgar r Ray, the head Of the Ray Detective Blu
reau and New York detective from 1900 to 1903.
Mr.. Ray suggested the dictagraph, A room was
taken in the house opposite Mr. FallabOm's home
on EDGAR street. The receiver Of the dictagraph
was placed on a table in this room The wire
from ii was led out Of the window, unObtrusively,
up to the roof (its not unObtruSive in the illus
tratiOn simply to make it perfectly clear how it
was dOne) run across the street, down the side
of Mr. Fallabom's boarding house, through a
cellar window, up through the wall inside to the
second story front room. Then a hole was bored
through the wall and the dictagraph transmit
ter was fastened behind the piano, about feet
above the floor and a foot from the head Of the
davenport The piano was in a corner and the
dictagraph was disguised with piece Of wood.
Gone are the false boards and the mustaches;
all the DISCUSSES are for the dictagraph now
Then it was left to do its duty. Everybody was
very sure that it would, and around the table
across the street gathered the detectives and Mr..
Fallabom 1t is as has been said before, a most
interesting situation
Fancy, then, everybody gathered around the lit
tie box on the table. On the first floor of Mr..
FalabOms house the piano is going. On the third
floor the CHILDREN are playing. The second story,
front is empty. The wire, as is its business pays
no attention to anything except to the second
story, front Little spaTrows rest on its wire
where il crosses the street.
Innocent little sparrows. Suddenly a discon-
certing noise issues from the little box around
which the detectives and the husband await
Hist" says FallabOm. that is the voice
of my wifel" why hist? says one of the de-
tectives. I'VE can hear all right, but THEY cant
hear US" No but I want to hear everything.
"HistI repeated the Unsuitable Mr. Fellabom.
Everybody hsted
The dictagraph: "EUery5ody'S doing It. It's
q bear, its a bear! It's beGTF
THAT McCintock, he's singing! Curses!" says
Nh FallabOm.