San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
HAROLD MAXWELL
r LIE FROY, the great Eng

LIE FROY, the great Eng
lsh poison gas expert, was
killed recently by mysterious
gas of his own invention in his [
London laboratory.
Nobody knows what that gas
is and probably nobody ever
will, for the inventor was care
full to leave no records of his
experiment-at least that is
what the world has been told.
But did he leave the formula
for a poison gas so deadly, SO
devastating, so frightful that his
fellow scientists stood appalled,
and destroyed Prof. LIE Frogs
records?
Like the murderous genie of
the Arabian Nights tale which
the unfortunate victim let
escape from the bottle-so Prof.
lie Froy let loose, in his labora-
tory, a gas of such frightful
deadliness that he fell under its
spell and passed into the grave PR
without the opportunity of tell r.
ing his fellow scientists who N
searched feverishly for an anti WY
dote to save him. Or, did he
leave records-and who de-
stroyed them?
The Bible says, "Secret things
belong unto the Lords it possible t
there really is such a thing as "forbld
knowledge? ?" The alchemists OF byg
ages, experimenting in their crude laoc
tories. were believed to be in league v
the devil; is it possible that there are SC
secrets which nature or, perhaps, ing
power will not permit men to pry INTO
The mysterious death of Prof. lie +
happened Just as he expected to annou
a great discovery and was much talked
nc dramatic and tragic piece OF ne
However, it was nothing to startle OF
scientists because it has happened bel
and is likely to happen again to most
chemical researcher. Yet scientists
world over were puzzled and alarl
when it was given out that Prof. LIE L
had left behind no record of his exp
Wbv had this renowned ;scier
worked in such an unscientlhc W
Chemical research today is mostly ma
MATES. hours and hours of work wit
Mcneil. and then the laboratory EXP
ment merely confirms or disproves
chemists figuring and he is contlnu
going back to refer to earlier hg'
which led to previous experiments.
prof. LIE Troy to have carried all u
calculations and formulae in his hea'
he went along, while not impossible Is
least, improbable.
Real scientists do not work that
and thew do not believe that he did. 7
Te Frov must have kept records but
question is what happened to them.
he burned them with his own hand
means. according to other scientists,
he had stumbled upon something so II
fvinq that he hurriedly destroyed the
that nobody else might follow and
what he had seen, and the discovery
was about to announce may nave
something quite different. If he did
do il then some other hand must
swent them away. Who's hand and "
Scientists are not prepared to say
the Deity struck down then. fan
hrother worker and obliterated his W
hut they do fear that we are all on
threshold of knowledge that may be Il
and men of science are not the only
who are worrying.
II is no secret that this and o
or,;nons occurrences recently have b
fr;obtened the governments of the G
noxars. Poison gas has become a
Ter that. like "Frankenstein," has go
Seyond lis creators control. It threa
moi only destruction of civilization
nossibly the end of all animal life on