A LIEUTENANT KILLED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13862, 27 March 1907, Page 5

A LIEUTENANT KILLED.

VICTIM OF HIS OWN-INVENTION.

Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright AMSTERDAM, March 25. Lieutenant Schiiumuu was killed at the Amsterdam aisenal it liile filling a new model shell of his own invention. Another man was killed and two others wcio wounded.

Now inventions not infioqurnlly claim |" their first iictims llio iciy men who have been instrumental in bunging them into being. ~ For seven long year, Arellibild Cimpuell, of Chicago, noiiccil persistently at his ■■-clipiiii) for making liquefied air. While engaged in the successful maufacturo of In", new ,uid wonderful force at tho faclory of tlio llealey Ice Machine Company, in Clinlon street, lie became a victim to its terrific power. As the result of the injuries ho received from some unoxiwctod ical; of his imcnticn, ho died at his wnio, jnsl when all tlio difficulties had Iwen sin mounted, and there was a chance of his doming <= omo benefit fiom his many J cars of effort to perfect his scheme. • q ml ,llc "'^ amcr p aia, which put into bt. Ihomas tome time ngo in a veiy damaged condition, a particular process was employed for piesemng the fruit wnitll foimcd pari of tho cuigo of the -vessel. _ It seems to have been in ot tho linontor, a Air Lawton; and during tlio voyage between Jamaica and Barbados the ie«eno supply of chemicals employed in it exploded, killing the mi<mtor and two otheis. besides damaging the ves«el'tp such an extent that she could not piaoood to England. Another \ictim of his own invention was tlio late 11. G. Warner, an cngincci employed at some works at Sti afford. It was the first occasion on which a cylinder in\cnted by him was used in an 'experiment in tho boiling of horse blood. The intention was to boil tho blood until it became- congealed; and, believing from a sample taken from the lop that it had i cached that stage, the inventor gavo onlcis for the manhole at Iho ba*o of tlio boiler to bo unscioncd, so that the solidified inais could fall to tho giound. Befoio tils could bo dono tlio lid flow off, and tho contents of the cjUnder rushed out, -till m a boiling state, and scalded the untoiliinalfl engineer and two aWants to death. Jhroo otlior men escaped with lnoio or less soiious injuiy, which is not suipusing, considering tliat Ihcro woio I'oarly a thousand gallons of gory liquid in the boiler.

< 1 hero was a kind of grim humour in a double sense about another man who fell a victim to an iincution of his own. Ho wm a Russian, named Julius Chicn, who had cmigiated lo America, whcio ho (nought to make the jmonilc clement Remember the. Maine" by means of a !? y i, 1 loh ho "»'™t«l «"d called "How tuo Alamo was blown no." It sliould be explained that tins toy consisted of a sheet of tissue paper with a view of the ill-fated vesse in Havana Haibour, and a Spaniard 011 slioic fning the mine by electricity Iho paper was ignited by a burning mutch, the lire 1 mining along a nanow ftnp until it reached the pictuic of tho Alamo, which was c\ploded h\ a cap of giant powder, There was, however, a premature explosion ot tho powder in tlio laboratory of Ihe manufacturer, by which tho room and tho Russian were completely w 1 cc!;cd.

Another curious story comes from Amciica. While a new prison for Fulton County was in course of consti uction, a mail named |Lowis liad the creel ion of tho jiow gallows'in hand. A few wcok.s after ho had completed this piece of work ho was engaged on another building in the samo tow n. For some reason or other tho foi6man heio dispensed with his services, and in_ rocngo tho workman shot him dead without a woid of naming. 110 was consequently tried and sentenced to bo hanged ou the gallows of his own invention.

A no less remarkable caso was ropoited fiom Oklahoma about half a dozen years ago. In order io chock lawlessness, a bill, which proudod tho death nunishmont for the ciime of niuitler, was biought forward in tho State Assembly bj a member. Chieflj owing to his eloquent advocacy it duly became law, although etiongly opposed at lirsl. A short time afteuvards the mtiodiicer got into a violent dispute with another man, and at tho height of his wiatli killed .Inni. Haung been put on his Irial foi the nuirdci, ho was found guilty mid sentenced lo death, thus becoming tho lust \ictun of his own measure.