"A Little Knowledge"

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 46, 30 May 1930, Page 5

"A Little Knowledge"

A KNOWLEDGE of radio led: to the capture of a famous American skijumper and.paved the way for: his subsequent sentence, to be handed,on May 20, for a murder cor itted last February at Sydney, Nova: Scotia. Upon leaving the hotel after committing the crime the murderer walked geveral miles from the city, later seeking shelter for the night at a lumber camp some miles distant. There he sat up during the evening with the lumberjacks, listening to the programme received by wireless from Sydney. About midnight something went wrong with the receiving set, and the programme could no longer be heard. But the visitér knew something about wireless, and within .a few minutes he repaired the set so that the programme was receivable once more. Hardly was it resumed, however, than the voice of the Chief of Police in Sydney, Nova Scotia, was heard broadeasting an aecurate description of the visitor and stating that he was wanted on a charge of murder. One of the lumberjacks, realising that the stranger in their midst was ° the wanted man, left the camp shortly after and telephoned to Sydney. Officers soon reached the scene, and by daybreak the murderer was safely locked up in the Sydney gaol, where he confessed.