Show LUNATIC INVADES i VESTIBULE OF THE WHITE HOUSE t I Was Determined to See the i I Chief Magistrate t OVERPOWERED BY OFFICERS 1 l I I Desparat Hand1 Hand Encounter En-counter Takes Place I He Drew a Revolver and Attempted to Shoot One of the Officers but Is Finally Landed in Prison i Washington Oct 5A desperate r desper-ate han lohantl encounter with nn armed insane man who was determined I to sec President Roosevelt occurred in the vestibule of the White House shortly short-ly 1 before noon today The man who gave his name as Peter Elliott and his home as Minneapolis was overpowered by the officers on duty at thc White House entrance and carried car-ried to a police van which had been summoned He was placed in the van in the custody of two officers Seeming to realize then for the first time that BOOTHYS INVENTION a Continued From Page 1 through a graphaphone about two years ago using the conventional earpieces Afler a days trial my stenographer came to me and said Mr Booth I could not sleep last night because my ours pained me so Jhe complaints continued We tried other girls but with the same result At last I determined deter-mined to use the machine myself After Af-ter I had had the pieces in my cars for about half an hour my ears began to hurt me and I felt as though I must rub them with my hand Finally I gave up the Job in disgust and decided to throw out the gruphaphone ORIGIN OF THE IDEA It was then that it occurred to me that there should be some means by f I 11j which the unpleasant features could bt i N removed or modified and I set to worJi i experimenting After many failures I i f struck the right combination and mad1 Ii I a crude model of what you see hercj When It had been tried I took it tL < I Chicago and submitted It to a fricni i j there who sent me to a patent attorney1 > When I explained to him what I haJ j 1 done he expressed his doubt as ti t II If I whether I had discovered anything thai 1I was not known to such experts ns Edt 1 lit son who had devoted years to the stwlfj of talking machines but he consentej Ito I Ito I-to test the invention I rented a phonograph i t phono-graph and attached my device Whei 4 f he tried It the attorney was so excltn rt that he could not sit still and complimented r 1 I compli-mented me highly 11 jl 1 CHIEF OBJECTION MET i lllrl j > I asked the managers of both thy i talking machine companies in ChicagjjJ what they found to be the greatest obstacles ob-stacles In the way of the comnierclo t 9 adaptation of the machines and botl c assured me that the almost Insuperably 1 objection was the use of the eartube ill j I wan Informed that stenographers ah Folutely refused 1o use them and tha lw I half a dozen societies had officially condemned rl con-demned them U i II II The application for patent was carefully care-fully drawn up Eighteen specification i I were allowed and a primary patent oil this class of Improvements was granteti Ion I-on September 15th j II I WILL GO TO NEW YORK 11 iJ Judge Booth has been Invited by thL j head of the American Graphophon company in New York to demonstrat 11 < his device and he will leave for Gotharit in a few days to talk business Aooui i halt a million talking machines ar > sold every year and If Judge Booth call f get a fiOcent royally on each resonato j 11 sold his patent should bo more profita1 ble than a gold mine 1 11 1 r |