SWEARING MACHINE.
An amusing case was tried at Arad, in Hungary, recently, in wMch a M. Sohwans, a gramaphone dealer, was sued for slander uttered iby Ms instruments. It was explained that M. Schwarz's slumbers had ibeen disturbed by the singing of girls iri a dressmakers' workshop which was opposite bis bedroom. Be protested to the manageress, but in vain. One morning the girls were horrified to hear the most violent abuse and the strongest oaths of which' the Hungarian language is capable trumpeted at them from the mouth of a gramaphone placed in M. Schwarz's window on the other side of the court. Neighbors, of course, heard it, too, and the girls brought an action for'damages. M. ScWarz declared in Court that he lhad been testing some new records he had bought, as there was a demand for "swearing'' records to amuse parties. The judge, however, ordered' to the.. record in question to be played in Coiiit,, and as M. Schiwarz's own voice was re-1 cognisable, he ,was ordered to pay £1
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 2
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173Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 147, 30 September 1910, Page 2
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