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Updated: May 12, 2025
I read: "Whitney, Stuart. Res. 174-J Rockledge." Quickly he gave central the number, then shoved the receiver again into the telescribe. "Hello, is Mr. Whitney there?" I heard later as he placed the record again in the phonograph for repetition. "No who is this?" "His head clerk. Tell him I must see him. Kennedy has been to the office and " "Say get off the line. We had that story once."
"That's it!" exclaimed Craig. "Don't you see they've all gone up to Whitney's country place. That clerk was faking. He has already telephoned. And listen. Do you see anything peculiar?" He was running all three records which we had on the telescribe. As he did so, I saw unmistakably that it was the same voice on all three. Whitney must have had a servant do the telephoning for him.
Kennedy opened the door and switched on the lights. Waiting only long enough to jam the receiver down into place on the telescribe, he answered the call. "The deuce you will!" I heard him exclaim, then apparently whoever was talking rang off and he could not get them back. "Another of those confounded telephone messages," he said, turning to me and taking the cylinder off.
"I wonder whether that was a frame-up!" he exclaimed, pulling a little cylinder off the instrument into which he had inserted the telephone receiver. "I thought it might be and I have preserved the voice. This is what is known as the telescribe a recent invention of Edison which records on a specially prepared phonograph cylinder all that is said both ways over a telephone wire."
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