■ An ingenious. means of '• defrauding a penny-in-th(vslqt, gas meter has been discevered ill Hotiblttlii. Tho gas,company found that one of its customers wis undoubtedly consuming krpo quantities of gas, although, no wmis were ever found in his meter. Baffled in ite attempts to discover the fraud. tho cotunv.iy at last offered to pay tlm mail for hiss sec.rct, at tlifs- safiio timfe guaranteeing liirn against prosecution. • lie then showed it ii' 'mould of tiho «sact sifCo of the copper eoil) used for the meter and an Ice machine, Ho explained that with these lie made a diee «)f Jco wMeh ,hfe; jrnt into tho meter to release, a supply of gfts. _ Tlio disc then melted and the water dried up, so. that ivh.cn ft e m<Hcr came to ho opened there i was nothing inside-.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1988, 19 February 1914, Page 6
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135Untitled Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1988, 19 February 1914, Page 6
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