AN ANNIHILATOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN ANNIHILATOR.

••he New Haven correspondent of I York Times writes :—A well-known port professor, who refuses to give hi makes public the facts concerning a which he calls the instant and i annihilator of human life, which operated without detection, anS'-wl United States Government has just to patent for him, because of its di character, and from fear that it will be nefarious purposes. A reporter of th visited this man to-day, and waa ah machine. '' The principal objection said the inventor, '' on the part of thi States Patent Office was, I believe, that they feared I was in league wi gerent /.rishmen, aud was seeking tection of our Government in the futi of killing off English members oE Pa who are hostile to the Land Leaf have no objection now to exhibit my it I have spent years upon it—in fac taken all my leisure hours for nearly s but, as I find I cannot be protected b' and that my models and plans have 1 by many persons in Washington, a prevent no one from using the eami no reason for further secrecy." The i consists of a bras 3 belt shining like ; of fine workmanship. It is 42 inchei five inches wide, and is five-eighths c thick. As the inventor took it up an it ia various positions he patted it and then abruptly wanted to know not indeed :i beautiful piece of me " Do you see that ?" he exclaimed, to a slightly projecting nipple 1 exactly in the middle of the belt, drive a pellet from that nipple that \ trate the skull of an ox at a dista feet. If the ox ia alive, I will gua kill it within 15 minutes, by mea same pellet. There will be no noise firing of this deadly missile, as you before you leave. I simply place i to my side and the machine goes off force of a ride. The pellet, as you w and here the inventor took down a taining several grea3y, greenish objects, about three inches long anc as the lead's of a pencil, " is as be; much lead, but no lead enters intc position. It is all poison, concent pressure, 100 parts into 1 part, ingredient of that poison is my secre' if you will wait a moment, I will I doc; that I have in the back yard, a: I decided this morning to lay on th science. You will then be able to to the effectiveness of my beautiful ini In the absence of the old man the T: respondent took up the deadly examined it closely. Though the on of braes it was lined with eieel and flexible and hollow. The front w; and thicker than the sides and back, whole machine felt much heavier looked. A hinge allowed the back and the belt to encircle the bodv. place it snapped together much like cuff. The entire front was conr| smooth brass, on the underside oi right under the nipple, there was ai ment which seemed to be to en; wearer to load the belt. Other? machine looked far from being da The professor came in struggling at of a rope, with a miserable-looking s at the other. "As I was going tc before I went out," he said, "v beautiful invention cf mine, a man of care and intelligence can take off ai individual at any time and anywheri incurring the slighteet risk for bin causing no pain to the person attact you know that the cruel and dreadft of some of the European crowned he caused me mucn pain ? The idea of and bones of kings being strewn $ roadside from the force of bomb ei to say nothing of the ofher system traction which have baen employ time to time by assastins, is drea has seemed to me that such deaths vt and unnecessary. Now, I have worl and day to provide real reformers ; executioners with a weapon that wi] human beings without pain. I ask nothing for my invention aud I s nothing. I have received iaquirif few peopla in reference to this A well-known Russian reformer, a g wants one of them. I have had m tion from Irishmen as yet, but an a the Cuban journal Separatist, the the revolutionists of New York, was week to see me concerning it As ] tected by no patent now, I propose t nothing but working drawings,' but 1 show you the machine in action." 1 dog waa dozing by the stove. The brought out an air-pump from th placed the belt under it, and proc cb&rge it with a tremendous pressure he had finished the gauge in the pum 20,000 pounds. The belt was th rigid, but gave no evidence of the strain upon it. After he had rein belt from the pump he threw aside clasped the belt about him, placed o pellets in the nipple, and arranged t steel levers, one under eaoh. arm,' then connected with the belt. Afte ing his clothing, taking care to put i through a button-hole in his waiatcc it was scarcely observable, he ai that he was ready. "Watch my said he; "you will hear no sound.' the dog, he pressed his left elbow as side which action he said "eocl . strange device, making it ready to g a light pressure on the other side of '. Next, his right arm fell. "There, 1 with a nervous motion, wiping the sweat from his foreheed. "That shot. In less that 15 minutes it dead." There was a profound silen< room. Nothing but the ticking of clock on the wall broke the stillness not seem possible that the dog 1 struck with anything. The profe plained that the penetration was and the hole made by the pellet that it caused very little pain, no n that made by the point of a pio. I the dog gave a piercing shriek, jum the floor into the air, and fell bad He was dead. "It is not necessa the professor, " that these projeotili picked up one of the pellets, "shot a vital part, to cause death. It necessary that the projectile shot under the skin of the animal or m warmth and moisture of the body the substance of which the pellet is c and the instant a drop of blood that with it enters the heart, death ensu