Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1917 — Grocery Boy Is Arrested for Sending False S O S [ARTICLE]

Grocery Boy Is Arrested for Sending False S O S

New York, Feb. 16.—Charged with sending out a fake SOS message: “We are sinking," William F. Eekoff, a 16-year-old Brooklyn grocery boy, with a wireless apparatus on the roof of his home, was arrested today and held in SSOO bail by a United States commissioner. Louis Krumm, chief radio officer on the battle ship Arizona made the complaint. Eekoff is charged with sending out the message Jan. 21, and signing the signal of the Arlington station. The Arizona’s wireless operator caught the message and assumed a ship was in distress. Investigation showed, however, that the Arlington station had not sent the message. By wireless detective work, Eekoff was located as the offender. He confessed, the Federal authorities say, when arrested.