Show SUCCESS SEEMED SEEM SEEMA i A ABOUT TO CROWN lABOR OF 25 YEARS i. i N V W YORK June 13 Herman Herman O. O r jY a a. Brooklyn inventor 62 years bid was killed today at Coney island S by iy y a device on the invention of which h he had spent pent more than a 3 quarter of a a. r century and all aU his savings Moritz's invention was an aerial toog to- to Q og ian slide Permission had Just been granted to operate it all the laws of s. the department being compIled complied with The first ear car was empty and went without Other cars with ith j Persons in n them were sent over The Thee Thed I d e s seemed emed to be working to per per- and nd as the various cars one after alter another r went d down Jn the steel slide elide and cams up with a 3 round turn Moritz stood and looked on his face beaming with pleasure He fairly shouted for joy The dream of the last hast five year of his h's life liCe was real real- izel and his beam beamed d with delight I as his friends alighted from the cars I Ian an and pronounced the construction a success suc success suc- suc uc- uc cess and as certain to make him a for for- tune Inspector Rittenhouse house and Charles Otis a friend of the inventor rode in ih the lat last car ar to be test tested Moritz stood at t the the Incline The car ha had had nearly reached the top a distance of ab about ut seventy feet iVet The There e was a cracking cracking crack crack- ing sound a shout and Rittenhouse Otis shot backward Their car had failed 1 to Hold the steel clog dog until the top of th the incline had been beell reached It came eanie am down with great v velocity lol straight for the place where Moritz Morita vas wao standing stand stand- ing The car car was almost almost upon him when lf lift J turned to g t out of the tho way It was too late The heavy vehicle strIck him in the back knocking him wire n netting netting- and out into the Bowery walk He died two hours later Rittenhouse and Otis were thrown from their seats but were ere uninjured |