Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-19 | Page 1 | Criminals Might Use Cummings' Device in Safety to Themselves

CRIMINAlS CRIMINAlS' MIGHT T USE CUMMINGS CUMMINGS' 1 DEVICE E IN SAfETY TU Tn THEMSElVES Alleged g I Invention n tro o of Trapped Trappe d Blackmailer Might Be Grave Be-Grave Grave Danger 1 to Society Ill extent t to which crim criminals nal might T TH put Jul the Invention young W V. L L. s arrested on on a charge o of oC attempting at at- at- at tempting to blackmail Miss 1158 Dorothy Bamberger out of oC 1000 claims l as his hison o n own Is said ald by electrical experts and andIn law lan officers to be almost without limit if the claims made fur for it are aie true That it would make 1 possible under tho those e conditions lii for tor the hand of oC crime tc te reach out un unseen unseen en and unheard to t the e einner inner recesses of ot the home or tho business busi ness world orld Is it one ne assertion made dimming Cummins a youth and a dreamer Continued on op Page 6 L CRIMINALS MIGHT USE DEVICE IN SAFETY TO SELVES Continued from Crom Page Pae 1 asserts that he has hiis invented Ill d a n means of oC transmitting nn an electric park with with- without without out wires from one given point to an another another an- an another other that with t tho e proper arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment of transmitting and receiving poles ho Ito can project a n sprint spark of ot dent clout force through the air or through any solid soUd to ring an nn electric belt bell or Ignite a properly arranged fuse cap He could If tc his claims are arc fru true have ha carried out his hla threat explode to nitroglycerin nitro nitro- glycerin under Miss Bamberger's room in the Hotel Utah and could have blown up the entire hotel building b by bya a spark sent from a a. safe safa distance for tor himself and with the narrowest chanco chance of or detection Cum Cummings mines asserts ho was aj but a t tool In the hands of ot a n criminal or criminals If It ho he has haa Invented In d such an electrical appliance us It he claims the tho police sa say a n blackmail band with whit him as Us Ha tool could terrorize the world with small chance chanco of ever e 1 b being det detected ted