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Show MAKER OF INFERNAL MACHINE IS DEAD COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., Aug. 7. John Dorr, who was Injured while working work-ing on an infernal machine at his residence resi-dence here last evening, died at noon today to-day without having regained consciousness. conscious-ness. Both eyes were destroyed; his hearing was deadened, and his feet and legs were torn by splinters of wood which were driven through them. Late developments develop-ments tend to confirm early reports that Dorr bad been mentally unbalanced for some time and that he had planned to "get even" with some fancied enemies. In the Dorr home today were foun3 twenty-nine sticks of dynamite and a complete outfit of electrical batteries, ether, acids, fuses, an alarm clock, wires and an outfit of wigs, mustaches and long whiskers. The dynamite was brought to the Dorr home from Castle Rock, according ac-cording to the police, who said Dorr had j acted strangely for some time and had told of a mysterious man with "a long brown beard" who had injured him. |