Show POISON GAS FOR highwaymen t army man invents device designed to prevent robbers from entering railway car it would bo 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 in the popular science monthly they wo would bild be greeted with clouds of poisonous gas fumes meyers robber proof car works with extreme simplicity two tanks in which fumes of cyanide of potassium aro are stored under pressure are fitted inside the car cap tit nt each end these are connected with a perforated pipe which extends all laroun around d the door of the car just in back of the outer framework shou should id the train be held up the locomotive engineer would tel telephone the curds within the car who would immediately open op en the valves ol 01 the tank the fumes would stream out through the pipe perforations and into the robbers faces the door being gas tight the deadly gas could not penetrate into the car |