SHOCKING THE RATS.
An American boy, twelve years old, once cleared his father’s cellar of a pest of rats. Out of some fruit-jars be constructed a battoiy of three Leydon jars, which he connected and placed upon a large iron plate that touched tlie tin-foil on the outside. The bait was arranged in such a way that when the rat stepped upon the plate to seize it, he nt once completed the connection between the outside and the inside of the jars, which were discharged through his body, killing him on the spot. The jars were charged by an electrical machine, also of the boy’s construction. From the room above the cellar a
couple of wires were run through the floor, and us soon as he heard a rat squeak the \oung inventor immediately re-charged the machine. In three hours twenty-five rats were slain, and in two days tlie plague was entirely banished from the cellar.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16360, 24 February 1921, Page 7
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