“GHOST” VOICE, TRAPPED

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 117, 2 December 1938, Page 4

“GHOST” VOICE, TRAPPED

PI lON' E CALLS TO WOMEN LONDON, Oct. 7.—For lour years the London police sought a “Whispering Man”—that was the name they gave him—who rang up ivomcji and started conversations in an improper way. Since last May the search had coat thi' Post Office. £4O a week. This was said at .Marylebone when Christopher Patrick Murphy, 23, commercial traveller, of El gar-court- Kensington Gardens, was charged with sending an improper message by telephone, and with assaulting Detective (Terar, of Scotland' Yard, who arrested him in Chepstow-phu’o, Bayswater. For the first olfence lie was lined £lO, with fOgns. costs; lor the second he was given two mouths’ hard labonir.

Call Traced. During the past *l.l months, it was alleged, a "phantom” male voice* had rung up Miss Dulcie Warner, ol .Paddock road, Crieklewood, at a theatre in Cloventryj street where she was a. cashier. On September 11, on instructions, she held the voice in conversation until she became, exhausted. Later when the voice resumed conversation she held the caller until the police traced the source to a i all-hex in Hayswater and arrested -Murphy. Murphy’s story was that lie went into a kiosk and saw a middle-aged man about to leave. Me picked up the receiver, found it apparently dead, and left the kiosk. He denied that lie assaulted the detective.