The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-10-23
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER %, 1901.
INVENTIONS OF CRIMINALS.
Miny Useful Articles NOW IN Use
Created for Evil Purposes.

Created for Evil purposes
At the present time the German
rrench AMI Italian minis are ali us
ing coin making machine whlch
was invented and used with huge
nrodt making results by Manches-
ter coiner, whose best known allas
was Henry Harvey. He is at present
leading a healthy, if monotono"s Ire
at Portland If this coin maker haa
not been SO perfect ne might still be
living handsomely on his earnings
During 1895 and 1896 the notice OF
tho policc was drawn to the perfect
quality and make of the money in CIR
culation in Cottonopo.is.
Some very beautiful specimens OF
soyereigns and half sovereisns We're
sent up by a Manchester numlsmat-
ist TO the London mint, asking why,
if they could turn them out such
beautifully made coins sometimes
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given into the hands OF Scotland
Yard. with tlye result that Henry
Harvey was lodged at the public ex-
pense But his "coin maker was SO
perfect that the aforementioned con
tinental powers all adopted L. and
if Mr.. Harvey had only patented his
invention instead of working it. he
would now be drawing over $4,000 a
year in royalties.
The discovery of thermite has
helped later science and mechanics to
such an extent thai Mr.. Drayton, the
great American steel king, said that
it would when in general use, enable
Atlantic liners and men-ofwar to b.
built al one third the present cost
Yet the discovcrer was Fritz Won
Schmidt, known to the European pc
lice as Count Ether" because he
was scientist. who, when wanted
for burglary. always vanished as
quickly as that volatile spirit
During the first two or tire,
months of 1898 nearly G2,OO0,OOt
were stolen from the strong room:
of Partisan, London and Berlin
banks. In every case the burglar, or
as it turned out, the burglars--tw'
in number--attained their ends b.
melting hole. either large enough
to pass their bodies or hands through
first in the metal door of tn
strong room. and then in the safe il
side.
No noise was made and no tool
necessary save a small heating al
paratus, such as painters use to war
old paint But by using thermite i
place of the ordinary spirit such
heat was obtained that the best ste.
melted like wax in fire, and a
quickly.
Won Schmidt was discovered by hi
efforts to patent the discovery.
must have been during moment
mental alteration that he explaine
to a patent agent in Berlin what h
thermile would do, for he offered
make his way into the agents SAT
Half an hour later he was beir
cared for by the police.
The hypodermic syringe is at Il
present time one of the most ust
medical instruments, and thousan
of lives are saved annually by
timely aid. It was first brought in
notice by the raiding of erin
school" in Paris. The founder al
head of the seminary, where t
young idea was taught to shnoc p
sonward, was certain DuChaillo
whose medical genius had been lt
to the world by an early escapa
which shut him out from intercour
with self-respecting men. Du Chaiil
sank lower and lower, till he sudG,
ly found himself reduced to star,
ton or crime. He chose the .att
and, being clever, employed the Pa
gamins to do his dirty work Stin
lated by the all Of the hypo?erl,
syringe they accomplished foats Il
would have shaken the iron narN
OF a Kitchener When the sch
was raided Du Chaillou himself