The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-01

.thtC Ill a liDCi ouit OiVuGht ny INV
ldore Roosevelt against the editor of
1.-THE Ishpeming (Mich.) Iron Ore had
lreceived indirect support and encour-
lagement from the heads of certain
companies of the United
States Steel Corporation recently was
called to the attention Of Elbert HI.
He was told also that, according to
published statements, steel officials
by innuendo had furnished some of the
|Yossip reflecting on Mr.. Roosevelts
PERSONAL habits
ward appearance resembles a preserve jar
cover made shalower and with respect
to size and shape in handling might be
con pared TO some old fashioned hunting
case watches-no larger or bulllier. In
the cover of the detectaphone box there
are about 40 holes pierced through, 80
that they form six pointed star The
dancing balls hear what you say in
great measure through these holes.
Additional to the detectaphone box
and part of the apparatus are a pair of
telephone receivers such as are used on
metal head bands by girls in telephone
exchanges, a battery for circuit excita-
ton, controller TO adjust the pitch or
volume of sound to the ear so that it
does not come too loud or growly nor too
low and. indistinct.. These adjuncts are
enclosed within quartered oak box
with sufficient length and flexible cord
wire to suit the distance and conditions.
The ear receivers, the battery and the
controller are always placed on the end
where the listeners are stationed to catch
what the dancing carbon balls communi-
cate They are the tools that would eX-
cite suspicion even more than the detec-
taphone box If seen by suspected men,
With such an apparatus as described
William ]. Burns detectives trapped the
principals in the famous Mcnamara
dynamiting case who are now serving
| prison sentences. They also caught at
! Columbus, o., those members OF the
| state legislature who were later con-
| vic ted of accepting bribes and are now
behind bars. They proved the guilt of
| the Atlantic City and Detroit aldermen
engaged in unlawful practices. In every
instance the dancing carbon balls made
good the insistence of the inventor that
| nothing can be concealed from them. All
of those convicted of crime met as they
: thought, in rooms where they could plot
rasoality and not be heard. The detecta-
phone proved that walls lnueed nave ears.
Placing of the Plant
| The placing of the detectaphone plant
| is very simple as to method but is likely
! to become harder as time goes on and
crooks and near crooks begin to suspect
that the little dancing balls may be Sc
| creted within few feet of where they
| plan their crimes. When Raymond j..
Burns secretary and treasurer of the
William j. Burns International Detective
| agency was asked to explain his meth
ods, the answering smile was hardly more
| than might be expected.
"Without doubt we owe our success
| in the Mcnamara, Ohio legislature and
Detroit and Atlantic City aldermen cases
to that great apparatus. the detecta-
phone" said Mr.. Burns. 1--WE were able
to place the little metal box where plots,
plans offers. acceptances and schemes
were discussed. Our men, only a short
distance away, heard it ALL
"But'-here came the whimsical
smile again-"you can hardly expect rs
to tell you just where we secrete the
box and how we are able to do 1t
without being discovered. You may be
assured that when we are engaged on
q case and it requires a detectaphone
we'll get the little box planted where
it will do the best service. Each case
presents it's own difficulties, but there's
always a way to hang the box. Somn-
times it takes a little longer and some
times it's a little harder, but 1t surely
can be done"
Gaillard C. Smith, the inventor or
adapter as he calls 1t. of the appar-
atus. revealed much more than the
Burns agency as to how, when. where
lihe dancing carbon ball box could be
| placed to do it's detective work. Mr..
smith went at 1t in realistic way
Now" said Mr. Smith with convinc-
| ing emphasis, 81 am going to be crook
and I'm going to say things in a
conversational tone in this room that
positively nobody could hear in that
other room with the door closed be-
| tween, if it were not for the detecta :
phone. Watch what | do
| Mr. Smith placed a dancing ball box
inside the top drawer of his rolltop
desk He placed a seal on the drawer.
He fastened the wire cord to the two
electrodes of the little box and ran
| the wire out into the next room. where
| 1t was connected with the rest of the
apparatus as described.
when the genuine plant is made"
said Mr.. Smith, the wire is run Sc
| creily under the carpet or in other
ways that accomplish the same end.
Now, come in the other room Place
the two receivers on this metal hea 1
"trip to your ears. When I close the
door l shall walk back and forth across
the room, bump against the chair and
he desk. talk in an ordinary tone, no
| iouaer, just an ordinary tone, and
you'll have no difficulty in making
ont everything / do or say that has
| sound to it,"
So the door between the rooms was
slammed Sure enough the movements
Of Mr.. Smith about the room were dis
tinctly audible. He bumped chairs, he
raped and he talked And oh, the
horrible things he schemed to do
boodcurdling murders and bank rob-
lsaries galore. He had meeting place
arranged to get graft money for a
dozen bills now before the Legislature
and he made dates with half dozen
police captains
How II Works
ANY man who sits or stands near
where the detectaphone box is secretad
and starts TO talk. Immediately sets
the little carbon balls in vibration, ;
said Mr.. Smith in, continuing his ex-
PLANTATION. TT makes no difference Ii
they are closed up in drawer. Tho
whole drawer and the whole desk for
that matter acts as magnifying trans
r1iiter
;; THE vibration of the balls sends a
duplication of the talk sound along the
wire to the other room, where with re-
ceivers clarnped close to the ear it is all