The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-11-26
1RoysLr3 o. An Hiv!.NrCR.
How the Fire Manu- actuTrr nf Hisl nit.
Was Ii;r:.t. IL cut OF E.s Work.

\ How the F;fs' Manu- acturrr nf Hisl rifs
! Was Chr:.t, d cut OF H!s Work.
At the close IF the year it wa, al
roGngcd a French newspapers thai .
new srlo5.ve h,;d been inverted. corr
! parea 10 winch & yn;Gl to and nitro
giycerne we = IFS llaythings. The
name o. this new ;.rt Gle WAS nal II te
and the inventor Was 4 III. Iu:pin
French chemist.
Army eng .neers tested it and ;onnd
1t .'alto-cth~r + s;;ti5flc o:.y." 4 she
! which Wa frei lato an old condemned
fort near Pars b'ew the whJle struct-
ure to atoms; not Il stone or a hand. al
OF earth was let n t. place. in e.
pied 6. tie mel mite resolved self
into sucA powerful gases that Moth n!
could with 'taad is de5truct We fotre
The invent on meant Il re, ,olution IN
warfare; even the bIst m0le.m works
OF de ense were now rendered quite
useless.
The inventor rece we'd the due
amount Of pa sa Ii ) explosive was
called haaianCite n honor OF the thea
popular m MISTER OF war. and the
French government promised to buy
his invent on.
But bcu!ancer fell. and his succe s.
or. Al. Gampenon. seemed 20 have or
60 ten both Iuryin and the Elelin.te.
Us il again wa, ca!ie.!.
Fatr oti5rn is Il vcry noble quality.
but the best patriot must have
money, aud u. Tu"pin coaciuded TO
sell his invention 10 some ether gov
ernmeEi, or 10 some gun manufacturer.
lie thought of the Armstrong;, in
England says the Dctroit Free Press.
who are the most extensive mar lfact-
ui'ers in their i.na next to Knapp in
fssen ami he addressed himself 10 II.
Trironre5 their agent in V,..'is. Trip
onnct Gd.i~ad hun to so 20 thor
works ut Newcastle. which Monsieur
Tu:'pin did.
lis as.oni5hEent may be imagined
when lie ull0n his arrival found taas
his invcntion was already known in
England. T:e Armstr,:u g h Il IL cen
p;ete knowledge OF the reiGtivo Cuaa-
tity Of the con Joaenv parts OF the mel
into IS we'll as o. all other secrets
connected with It's manufacture and
the firm had called him oaly to obtain
his personal affirmation oi the correct
ness OF the process. and the genuine
ness OF the article. for which they Of
fered him 750, 900 francs. This prop
osition NJ. Trrp;n re ected and went
back to Par IN RAGE.
Here he very soon learned how the
Eng ish firm had como INTO possession
OF his secret Their agentin Paris had
simply EaI his father-iu-law steal the
necessary docum snt frcm the archives
o; the war Gepar; ment
N. Turpin now made formal COM
plant TO tie government. and a COM
fnittee of Investigation was appointed.
Tho chairman was an army officer
who had asslsiad Tr;ponne:'s .ather-in-
law in the theft. and the investigation
ended in smoke, of course.
After four years OF waiting and fu-
tile agitation, NJ. Turpin has now
finally taken the bull by t:le horns and
published a pamphlet in which he
gives a complete account of the case
and the t.eatment he has suffered.
The publication of several of the
documents and facts contained in this
pamphlet was very annoying to the
government and the unsoid balance
OF the edition was recently confscatei
by order OF the war department. At
the same time Triponnet and Turpin
we're both arrested Triponnct's faith
er-in-law, the actual thief, had already
'evaporated.