WIRELESS IN GAOL
Our Own Correspondent)
Betiing on Horse Races
(From
SYDNEY, July 8. A wireless set in a eondensed milk tin in a prisoner's cell explained a mystery which had puzzed warders in a New South Wales gaol nntil recently. Sydney race results were lcnown by all prisoners within a few minutes of the finish. One day a warder picked up an in-offensive-looking tin of eondensed milk, on the lid of which milk had dried. That milk was a "blind." The tin cpened in the middle by the folding baek of the wrapper. Inside was a tiny crystal set, with earphone and a coil wound on a cotton reel. Early in March this year three wireless sets and a loaded revolver were found in a pig pen at Parramatta gaol. Apparently they had been thrown over the wall and were to have Been collected by a prisoner at the first opportunity. Starting-price betting flourishes in the gaols, and a Tadio set is a coveted i)0,ssession.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 4
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