The Scotsman, July 9th, 1908
The police in Glasgow reported that boys in the city where inserting a wire into the workings of electric streetlights and shorting it to the body of the light. This in effect electrified the pole causing the next person to touch it to get an electric shock.
Two boys (the previous Tuesday) where caught and brought before the Southern Police Court. The age of the boys isn’t given, but the older boy (who denied the charge) was fined 5s and admonished. The younger boy pleaded guilty and was admonished.
“Bailie Dunlop said the practice was a dangerous one, and remarked that if the boys had been older he would have taught them a leason”
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