Rum Row Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 51, 3 July 1931, Page 6

Rum Row Radio

Oxford Graduate Punished GENTENCE of two years’ imprisan--ment was passed at Brooklyn, U.S.A... recently, on an HEnglishman named Cecil Molyneux; said to be an Oxford graduate, aged about 30, for operating an illegal wireless station on Coney Island. He was arrested on September 26, 1930. He is believed to have used it to communicate with Rum Row, the ocean gathering point of rum-runners outside American. waters. When he was asked if he had anything to say, Molyneux stated: "I.installed the wireless on the I’m Alone --" but the judge cut him short, saying he was not dealing with that case or with liquor smuggling; he was only dealing with the operation of an illegal wireless set. . "You are a highly educated man," he continued, "and I’ must treat you differently from the way I would a mau of small knowledge." r ‘.