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Show DEVICE MADE BY CUMMINGS IS WONDERFUL I vault and the box containing the light globe and the bell was placed twenty-rive twenty-rive feet from the door of th vault, which was closed. There was a wait of but a few seconds and the bell rang and the light in the globe burned brightly. The test wa repeated several sev-eral times and then the box was taken into the ball and placed on the other aide of a brick wall to the east of the steel vault. It took but a few seconds longer to make this test than the first, but it was a complete sucee, the bell rang and the light burned, not once, but three times, at the request of those who were watching the test. Several other tests were made. At the conclusion of the demonstration the Pinkerton detective said: "I suppose that if we say what we have seen few will believe us. T doubt if I would have believed that such a thing was possible if T bad not seen it and made sure that there was no fake about the test. It is certainly wonderful." Other witnesses to the tot were of the Wireless Apparatus Invented Invent-ed by Black Hand Operator Opera-tor Is Marvelous. CAN LIGHT A LAMP THROUGH STEEL DOORS Placed in Huge Vault, It Rings Bell Far Away; Has Deadly Possibilities. Ringing a signal bell or lighting an electric light globe through the steel walls of a vault or a brick wall with no wire connections between the operator oper-ator in the vault or on the opposite side of the brick wall and the bell or light, is apparently an easy matter with the aid of an invention claimed by William Wil-liam L. Cummings, aim- James McX'or-mick, McX'or-mick, who was arretted yesterday morning by Pinkerton detective on the charge of having attempted to extort $1000 from Miss Dorothy Bamberger by black hand methods. A practical test of the iuveution wan made this morning in room 210 vf the Kearus building m the presence of a Pinkerton detective, u representative of THE TELEGRAM and two other wit neaset. The test was a critit-al one and was so guarded by those present that there was no chance for deception. Th Pinkerton Pink-erton man saw to it that there wa no wire connection between the machine and a small wooden box which contained con-tained an incandescent light globe at one end and a bell on the inside. A man who had seen Cumming operate the machine and had learned how it was operated, was selected as the operator. oper-ator. The invention was plac ed inside the same opinion. A few minutes after the test had been concluded. Deputy United States Marshal Julian Rilev arrived at room 21H Kearns building and took charge of the machine and all parts belonging to it, which will he held bv the government pending the outcome nf the case again dimming. Machine Is Described. The macLine is built along wireless telt'Ktsphy principles. rue machine n:a IM uescnoeu orieflv as follows: A -in ci nun tauK about one and a halt teet iu ilMsasOTsT ml al'out two and a i an leaf tugii piauus ou a wooden pedestal. pedes-tal. In freest ot the cylinder is a rea ngiit i. ci,.w and a green light above, neither ui which, huweer, had anything to do with the tent made this morning. Un top ut tee machine and connected with the insiue are two pieces of wire u 1. on t sis mt-lus long, one end of each MM I. cut is an upright position. T tiie otliet end of eacn piece of wire and comius within a quarter of an inch of each otner is attached a half of a Milan ball or steel or other metal. The in si a- of the machine is a series of wire div cell batteries, an instrument instru-ment similar to a telegraph key and other things, all of which go to make up the tuctliauUui. Iu the test made this woriung the bell and light klob were in a common wooden wood-en box about twelve' inches high, eighteen eight-een tabes long and about the same width, lessee the box was the bell and at one end was the lamp globe. The box ui- contained a drv battery cell and wire connecting the same with the bell auu globe. On tup of the box were two wires, similar to those on top of the machine, except that there are in. small half globes at either end. One end is out andaliove the box, the other in c. t- with the inside wires, to which are eMtes1 the bell and the lmp. Willi this machine Cummings claims lie rea ring a bell or light a lamp at a distance of 1 JO feet through brick, stone or steel. It U asserted that he also claimed that with one other little attachment, at-tachment, which he hoped to have perfected per-fected within a few days, he could work the key in the machine and write a letter ru a typewriter at a distance of at least UK) feet without other than an aa-intent to put the paper in the mac hi a. Can Be Used a Signal. Cummings says that the object of the invention was the perfection of a railroad rail-road signal svsteui. Cummings asserts that when his invention is perfected he can not only signal by the lights in front of each station when th block is clear and when a train k on it, but that uo matter what happens to the track the engineer will be warned. He says that with the aid of the wireless a train can be stopped at any distance up to 700 feet, and that in the case of a broken rail after a train has entered a block the signal will he flashed to the engine eab, where a bell would be rung and a light turned on to call the attention of the engineer to stop the train. Cummings Cum-mings claims also that when his invention inven-tion is finally perfected it will include a scheme by which it would be possible to automatically stop a train by pulling, the air controller, so that in case the engineer and fireman were incapacitated the train would be stopped before an accident could occur. Cummings claim that he ha been working on wireless machines for a number num-ber of years. Cummings claims that some time ago he Invented what he believed would be a good block signal system which he took to Omaha, and showed to railroad official. Hw says that defect in the invention were shown to him and he waa told that a wireless that would not be likely to get out of order wa needed. Cumming says that he then set to work to perfect such an invention. ft The possibilities of the invention demonstrated tbi morning aro great, according to those who hsve seen the is claimed that unscrupulous persons per-sons could use the machine with deadlv and. disastrous effect. It is declared that with snch a machine it would be possible for a perron to place an infernal machine in a building with the proper attachments and then at a distance of several hundred feet, in another building, build-ing, separated by walls, explode th infernal in-fernal machine with but little chance of detection. It could aleo be used to explode ex-plode the powder magazines in warships and forts, with but little modification of the existing device. |