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Show lUSTENMG II III rill 1 16) II III IsiLYW 1 1 Breaking in on Tele-1 Tele-1 1 phone Conversation I I Is to be Crime I Concord, N. H., Fob. 13. A bill I r which will bo presented In the New H I" Hampshire legislature this year, pro- M i vldes a fine of $10 "for each and ev- A cry offense of unlawfully breaking in Sj on a telephono conversation or taking I , down a receiver and listening to a V conversation between others on a par- ty line." fl The bill has been prepared by Rep- H resentative Herman A. Clark "at the 'i rcqueBt of telephone subscribers iu H the rural districts, whore four and H five party telephone lines are nuiner-H nuiner-H ' ous. I : "A great deal of trouble hns been , caused," said Representative Clark, If; "through people listening to telephone .', conversation which they know is not "j Intencfed for their ears" Why, down whero I live, there has been so much of this telephone listening going on i and then these conversations repcat- ,t ed that the section has become to bo called "Tattle Point." 1 oo |