Locked Call Boxes and Banned Geiger Counters
...Nearby shopkeepers or beat cops carried the keys
Here's Robert Cromie, writing in The Great Chicago Fire (Thomas Nelson: 1994), page 33: William Lee, the O'Leary's neighbor, rushed into Goll's drugstore, and gasped out a request for the key to the alarm box. The new boxes were attached to the walls of stores or other convenient locations. To...
