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Show POISON GAS FOR HIGHWAYMEN 1 . Army Man Invents Device Designed to Prevent Robbers From Entering Enter-ing Railway Car. It would be a sad gang of robbers who tried to break into the railway car Invented by George W. Meyers of the United States army and described hi Ihe Popular Science Monthly. They would be greeted with clouds of poisonous poi-sonous gas fumes. Meyers' robber-proof car works with extreme simplicity. Two tanks, in which fumes of cyanide of potassium are stored, under pressure, are fitted Inside the car at each end. These are connected with a perforated pipe which extends all around the door of the ear, Just. In back of the outer framework. frame-work. Should the train be held up. tho locomotive engineer would telephone tele-phone the guards within the car, who would Immediately open the valves of the (auk. The fumes would stream out through the pipe perforations and Into the robbers' faces. The door being be-ing gas-tight, the deadly gas could not penetrate into the car. |