The effect of the telephone on uncivilised beings may be turned sometimes to good account, to judge from a story in the “ San Francisco News Letter.” Some horses had been stolon in an out-of-the-way part of California, and suspicion fell upon a certain Indian. A telephone had been recently introduced into the neighbourhood, and it occurred to the owner of the stolen horses to get the Indian to come in and hear the “Great Spirit” talk. The Indian took one of the cups, and was thrilled with astonishment at being apparently within hearing of the Great Keeper of the happy hunting grounds, while he was horror struct when, after a preliminary speech, he was solemnly commanded by the Great Spirit to “Give up those stolon horses.” Dropping the cap as if he had been shot, he immediately confessed the theft, and tremblingly promised that, if his life were spared, he would restore the horses at once.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2241, 8 June 1881, Page 4
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