Omaha daily bee., 1896-02-13
DEFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE.
A Council BiuHs Man Evolves n snfc
and EffectuaI Pcncemnker.


Police clubs bludgeons and revolvers will
not be needed any more II Council Bluffs
man can succeed In getting the police de-
partments to adopt a new weapon that
he has devised for the use of patromen and
other people, who have occasion to resort to
extreme measures in the discharge Of their
duty and In protecting themselves. The
most dangerous riot can be queled and the
most puglistic law-breakers can be safely
landed without the infiicton Of gunshot
wounds, broken heads or bloody noses. And
the policeman will no longer be required to
stand as targets for even lingual abuse for
they will have the means Of shutting off the
torrent of profanity and obscenity that fire.
quently accompanies an arrest of foul
mouthed half-drunken brute.
All OF this viii be accomplished II the
police departments can be brought to see the
excellent features of the new weapon as the
inventor sees them. And ii will all be ac-
conpished by the use of a little gun no
larger than the ordinary 3S-calber bull dog
revolver the terror that awakens the echoes
and is sure to lodge bullet in the wrong
man. The Council Bluffs man uses no eX-
plosiVes in his weapon, and when 1t is dis
charged 1t does not make half the noise that
blow from a locust club does when II
strikes the skull of a roter. But the result
is instantaneous and marvellous. The fight is
taken out of the man and he loses conscious
ness in an instant.
! The secret of the effectiveness of the
weapon lies in the use OF strong liquid am
| monla. Instead of bullets the gun is charged
with specially prepa ed capsules containing
about twenty grains of concentrated am
monia, and they are propelled by spring
brought into action by the blow OF the guns
hammer. They are driven W tn perfect ac-
curacy distance of fifty feet and strike
with force enough to burst the thin walls
OF the capsule. The force of the concus-
sion vaporizes the ammonia and it instantly
arises in suffocating volumes. If the capsule
strikes the rioter on the breast he will not
be able to get one full breath before he is
choked and If it strikes him about the
mouth he is done for in less time than If
he had received bullet in his brain. The
vclumes of ammonlac gas cause complete
suspension of animation that will last long
enough to permit the officers to secure their
man before he regans his senses, but VII
not do him any permanent damage unless
little of it should happen to get into his
eyes. Even then the effects, unless the
strongest solution is used In the capsules,
| will disappear in few days.
| The gun has many features that will COM
| mend 1t to police departments and humani-
| tarians. In a riot the foremost men are
| the leaders and they are generally the last
ones to get hurt. Flying bullets usually
| find some innocent person on the other side
| Of the street or an unwilling spectator. With
! the silent ammonia gun the point of attack
would not be revealed until the pile of un-
| conscious men revealed it, and the very
| mystery Of 1t would have a deterrent in
| fuence unknown to the maddening flash
and bang of firearms. In a drunken bar
| room fight one police officer could control
| the crowd without a resort to brutal force
and with little exposure of himse,:.
| One feature of the new arm will commend
| itself to bicycle riders 1t is just tho thing
| fer the cur that gets his chief enjoyment
| in life chasing wheels on the country roads
One little capsule in the right place is all
he wants. and the thing will never have
| any sport in it again for him.
AS means of self-protecticn 1t will be of
immense value to the who has to be
out at nights. capsule exploded under the
nose Of a highwayman stops him as quickly
as If pile driver had fallen upon him, and
the man has protected himself, saved his
! watch and pocketbook without having the
weight Of murder on his soul.
| If the Council Bluffs man gets the en-
couragement he should get he will put the
| weapon on the market at once. It's cost
will be trifing in comparison to the price
asked for first class revolver. The only
secret that he has not revealed is the charg-
Ing and preparation Of the capsules, which
will withstand for years the action of the
concentrated ammonia.