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Show BUILT NOVEL MACHINE TO TAXE HIS LIFE LOS ANGELES, Jan. With his head iacased In aa airtight box. which bora th Inscription, "Patent applied for." and into which a large quan-titv quan-titv of ga was released through the agency of an alarm clock device, O. D. Comber lav on the floor of his homo her and was asphyxiated. Iln funeral waa held toda.i . The si arm clock served a dual pur noee. It not mile released tbe gas. but attracted neighHor. Thev armed too late, however, to save Comber. |