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r Company THE KEELY MOTOR FRAUD. and then a conical steel bullet was driven through 4 was able, in a single day, to send up its stock from Ever since the death of John W. Keely, the fantasti- inches of pine plank placed a few feet from the gun. eal collection of apparatus with which he puzzled the… … LONGITUDINAL SECTION AT BREECH OF GUN. a common shotgun when loose powder having no rai- The ‘‘vaporic” gun used on that occasion (it was his private purse, has been as jealously guarded as ming upon it is exploded. A small cloud of white va- nothing more or less than an air-gun) had a spherical…

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