The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-01
HOW KELLY DUPED VICTIMS.
MRS. KEELY's ATTORNEY ADMITS
THE MOTOR WAS A FRAUD.
Worked by Water POwer-Hubber
Tubes Through Walls and Under
Floors Connected With Carefully
Concealed BuIbs-FOOt Pressure

AAOOTH WIN
Concealed BuIbs-FOOt Pressure
started Ii.
From the New York Herald.
Boston, Mass, Jan. 2S-Ever since the
exposure of the remarkable manner in
which the late John w. Keely secretly
applied power TO his mysterious moter in
his Philadelphia laboratory efforts have
been made to secure a statement from
some of those interested.
l learn to-day that MIR. Charles ]. Hill,
attorney for Mrs. Keely. has made
statement concerning Mr.. Keefy and his
motor for the New York Journal, which IS
copyrighted by w. r. Hearst by whose
permission these extracts from the state
ment of Mr. Hin are made
Would Not Conceal Fraud.
AT the very outset of my connection
with the case / distinctly stated to Mrs.
Keely. whom I believe to be a woman alb
solutely innocent of any dishonesty in her
husbands work, that in event the whole
| thing was essentially fraudulent l could
not be a party to it's concealment, and that
| l conceived it my duty to protect the pubic
| from being imposed upon any further IL
| there was no truth in it. / requested to be
| relieved from the case If my course was
| Objectionable to her. | was not released,
| and in the two months that have elapsed
| every doubt have had has been swept
| away Every machine brough to Boston
| Is palpably fraudulent, and every interest
| involved demands immediate explanation
Several contemplated movements in the
stock of the Keely Motor Company nave
come TO my knowledge which II consum-
mated would mean that some innocent
! wit his for a worse
than worthless consideration. The differ
emf books treating of Mr.. Keelys work
from the point of view that 1t was honest
| are l am told, in process OF preparation
| at great expense. Such things as these,
| which will entail both financial loss ana
social ridicule, manifestly should be pre-
| vented
Il have therefore countenanced the pub
| LEGATION of the whole matter by Mr.. Bridge.
1t is a case where justice to the many
| must i'm Importance transcend the COM
fort of the few.
First Evidence of Fraud.
at was arranged between the president
of the Kelly Motor Company and my
| self that on Dec. 20, 1898, should adj
dress the stockholders, giving my views.
| as Mrs. Keely'S counsel, as TO the pest
| course to pursue. Shortly after this agree
ment. while examining the laboratory Mr..
llinraide discovered the first evidence OF
| fraud.
It'll that moment our confidence in Mr..
| Keelys integrity and honor was as firm
| as any of his friends who had invested
| thousands Here was a new element, that
of self-evident fraud affecting, however,
| only one machine, and not Whaling, 80
far as we know, any other of the numer-
Gus machines Mr.. Keely employed
In the statement made by j. Ransom
| Bridge he says:
when MIR r. Burton Kinraide took
charge of Mr.. Keely's laboratory, one of
| the first discoveries was how Mr. Keely
| did his experiments. He could vary the
initial performance in a dozen ways, but
the principle was always the same.
Rubber Tubes Used.
"In his operating room the remnants of
| rubber tubes beteewn the floor and walls,
| in various places, and also receptacles for
rubber bulbs told how he could do the
trick from various locations by pressing
his foot on a rubber bulb concealed I'M
der the carpet or in some out of the way
place.
"He often would take a harmonica into
| the adjoining front room, and, looking
through the connecting window, play
| Home, Sweet Home. When he struck
the right chord away would go the motor.
He would thon stop and start 1t at will
as he played.
This was particularly effective. One at
| least of the larger and discarded trans
mitters is still intact with the rubber dia-
| phragm, ana works TO perfection in maxi
ing the compass needle revolve'
Mr.. Bridge gives a detailed statement
of some of Mr.. Keely's exhibitions, such
| as the rotation of the compass needle, the
| vtalized disk, the narmonica and trans
mtter and the dlsintegrator. and then tells
how the motor was worked in this sum-
mary:
"In taking down the posts which held
the stationary axis on which revolved the
| hub of the motor, with its arms the first
| fraud was discovered. This framework
had no apparent connection with the en-
| gne beyond serving as a support for the
| stationary shaft or axis which passed
through the hub of the moter
False Box and Hollow Post.
"a false box a hollow post and hole
extending down through the floor led TO
a careful investigation. Under the floor
between Ii and the ceiling of an unused
store room beneath and always kept lock-
ed, was found running through the tirnbers
supporting the floor an iron shaft with
small pulley on 1t. The pulley and the
hoe in the floor were directly under the
| hollow post of the engine.
1.-THE iron shaft was followed to the side
| wall At It's termination was another pull
| lev Directly beneath this, but just above
the ground floor of the room, another iron
| shaft came through the wall, also with
a pulley on it. A small. well worn belt
was found, which fitted over and exactly
connected these two pulleys.
Going into the small rear room, mostly
| Allied with old junk and the floor of which
| was raised considerably above thai of the
middle ROOM there was discovered be-
| meath a box and an oilcloth spread out on
the floor a trap door. This trap opened
1 over the shaft which came through th
| wall.
Concealed Water Motor.
"TIere il was found that the shaft con-
neoted with a small water motor OF pecu-
liar construction, the water being sup
nlied by a lead pipe coming In from the
| outside of the building Extending from
his water motor was a small rubber tube.
Ii was found that by attaching rubber
| bulb to this tube the water motor could be
started by pressing the bulb and would
stop when the pressure was released. This
water motor Is now in the laboratory Of
Mr.. Hinraide In Boston.
| ,s1-ba rubber tubing was found also TO