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Originally Posted by Paul M
By mechanical, do you mean strowger, or crossbar, or even TXE (which used mechanical reed switches) 
(Strowger would not normally cut you off ringing, TXE usually would).
The answer to (2) is gererally no (unless they were monitoring with some fancy equipment).
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Hi there thanks for your answer. I wish I knew the difference between strowger or crossbar.
The exchange was in Maldon in Essex and the year was 1985. A crime was committed at a certain house and someone said that the criminal telephoned his own phone from the place the crime was committed and then left the receiver off the hook. Then he cycled home to his place, picked up his own phone and then hung up to make it look as if the person was at home in the place he robbed and that he even telephoned him. This was to give himself an alibi.
So you see the reasons for my questions? I just wondered if an ordinary telephone engineer could tell who hung up on who? As he said in court that the criminal was the one who hung up his own phone instead of the man who was robbed? The robber said to the police that the line went dead as if someone have put their finger on the button.
So that's why I asked if it were possible to tell who hung up on who?
The other question of course is the vital one, as it would have taken the robber 20 minutes to cycle home. I just wondered if the phone would continue ringing for that length of time? One person told me that there was a cut off point of 6 minutes?
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Originally Posted by cookie_365
I'm guessing researching a novel set in the 80s?
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You are nearly on the button there.
It was a crime that was committed in the 80s.