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Show Utah Lifer Inventor Of Novel Auto SALT LAKE CITY. July 25. LI! A new type automobile engine, novel in construction and a radical departure rom pi incrpcs embodied em-bodied in motors now in service, has been perfected and patented by a prisoner serving a life term in the Utah state penitentiary, advices ad-vices received from Washington, D. C, said. The prisoner is Robert H. McCoy, serving a life term for murder of A. Hoy Heath niVr a bank robbery in Bountiful, L'tah, in 1924. McGjy is regarded re-garded as a mechanical genius a.nd recently escaped while working on one of the prison guard's automobiles. He was captured in Butte, Mont., and reluriii.'tl to the prison where he has been kept under close guard ever since. The motor patented by McCoy is designed to decrease vibration, da vclop greater power and operate with less fuel consumption than the present day engine, the Washington Washing-ton advices indicate. The model now stanls in the prison yard, untouched since McCoy's Mc-Coy's escape. He has been denied the privilege of further experiments experi-ments since his leturn from Butte. |