Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-06-28
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The Famous French Inventor ana
His Marvellous Schemes. a.A4

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His Marvellous schemes. ..as
Press Report,
New York, June e7.--Thc Turpin at
iair ~ over but while Il lnAtcd Il Great
ed an intense excitement.
NJ Turpin " the famous French in
ventor who. three yeurs ago. al the
close OF May. 1891. was sentrnced 10
TWO years Imprisonment because II
the publication cf n pamphlet entitled.
The Meiinite Was Sold
This mclinite wae n famous cxplo-
Nve. one " the many inventions Tor
which Turpin had obtained great celeb
riN IN Europe Tho French were very
mysterious about tho powers OF this
Wondcrfui new force. and Germany
was constantly eendlnK spies 10 parls
~ the hope OF discovering the secret
OF the manufactures II was said that
the French wore making shells with
melinitc which would 40 such terrible
execution IN the next war that the op-
posing armies would be compelled TO
retreat before II.
Difficulties arose hctwcen The French
government and the inventor, and Il
was probably IN ne of evaporation
~ the small results which the governs
ment was willing 10 give him FOR his
years OF toll and for the veniup which
had enabled him TO accomplish IA
much. that he published the ramrhiet
containing severe reflections upon pub
lie functonarics.
Turpin was sent to prison NJ l,tam-
tts. kind OF political house OF dctcn-
ton. and there no was allowed 20 cons
unue HIS irhora, A man OF great force
OF character and prndikioua Industry.
ne seemed to have quite Invested him
relf OF the idea that ho was Imprisoned
ma 70 hive gvicn himself entirely TO
Presently A vaa announced MAJ n.
had PERFECTED wonderful engine Of
war. thing entirely new and hers-
iotorc thought impossible, a machine
which would put al 1.-The Calling and
Maxim and Hotchklne guns In the
hhnde forever.
Whether this had any influence u,n.
the pvwrra III uncertain, but public
epinion began 70 experience reaction
about 1urpin, and IN April Of 1893 hs
Nus pnrdoned. ard h very handsomely
placed at the disposal of the rove
msnt the results OF lir prison labor, 70
show, M he paid. that he bore no m
win for the humiliation imposed upon
Il I'm,
In return for this. he simply nshcd
TINT Tho government should annui tho
prosecution aud restore him his honor.
which Ind. before this misfortune, been
stainless. He also asked the return of
his CrnrH OF the Legion Of lTonor,whic
ldm.
rIme raHscd, mud the government aid
No. buy tho iow Invention Of NJ. Tur-
pin, nor did u grant his request 80 re-
store I'm lis ftninieas rario. For
twelve months he worked ;een,er sous-
". in the ope NJ iuftoning the hard
hearth Of tho officials, but IN vain.
suddenly he took up his books and
Inventions, 20 his personal friends nn-
nonnced that he Ind been ontrageously
treated and would never sct foot IN
France again, and. turning HIS back on
his native city, went TO Belgium
Then came the news that his great
Invention had been sold to Germany.
III" sensation that this produced was
enormous. II created almost n panic
on change the day II was announced
IN Paris, and the newspapers published
whole pages on tho subject Tufpir
was called MI the NillninouA names IN
the calendar Of abuse, beginning with
traitor AMI ASSASSIN, and meantime
he Ana approached BY sccfot agents
OF thn government. nn1iously inqulrina
" the report Of the Pals were true,
After rurpin had allowed the country
20 run Wild over the rumor. he gently
II situated that tile negotiations with
Germany, or with the triple alliance,
nobody knew which, We're not quito
completed
~ THIS point. " ~ believed, lrrnco
began 10 500 the Joke The nation
perceived That Turpln wan determined
10 have his honor back again ana was
IN position 10 dictate terms, Ths
result was fhe announcement, which
has nirendy been made public. that NJ.
Turpin had nobiy refused all fofcinn
offers, and had made present Of his
invrniinu 10 the French government.
ana would hc rc-eatnhiiHhcd IN all bis
rhrlsline ptn'nlcssnsas. and would e.
back rnd DO good Parinlan.
Here the matter rests for the present,
although no one knows whether or not
this IN authentic
"A TO the new war engine, which has
cnur,d such terrible CONSERVATION. this
FEWER OF II may be guenfed from Tur-
rin'h own declaration that Lc crnld
inyfge I'll th1 coast Of England IN eight
days IN the very tprth OF the English
defensive ne9ts With q frw ordinary
commercial steamers big enough TO
cn,rs his machines
~ could" he said. with singh
steamer Of 1900 tons destroy the whole
OF Brighten In two hours" "A 10 tho
war fieets which look no formidable. he
Fnya thcy would te no more In front N
his new erglne tbun 40 many paper
boats.
.The mat formidable forirerscs. the
most solid walls, can" says III. Tutpir,
with my war engines" Che has not
given Il any definite nnme) be swept
nway IN a twinklinR. and Thousands OF
men can be killed At The same time"