Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1894 — A DEADLY WEAPON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A DEADLY WEAPON.

The New Kiot Gun Which Can Disable 150 Men to the Minute. The “riot gnn” with which United States Marshal Arnold armed his posse of deputies during the rei ent trouble

in Chicago is really a cross bet\\ een the Gatliny gun and the Fiench mitrailleuse. .It mayl be defined as a ! repeating shot- j gun. but is the ' most powerful 1 hand arm ever; loaded with pow- ! der and shot. The weapon is ofi lar ; er bore than J the average army ri but ! weigns losl Its l magazine has ! room for six H-1 caliber car-! t idges. Each cartridge con-; I tains .. . drams of ; -owder and 1 j b Cishot. Between the snot ; and the powderi ate two eighth- 1 inch comp essed pa er wacs The i shell of the car- | tridge is of pa- j per, backed by a !

iim of brass. Its outward appearance is very much like the ordinary shotgun shell, but its surface is thicker and much stronger. The six cartridges may be fired in half as many seconds, thus throwing seventMwo scatte ing bullets, any of which would inflict a serious wound at eighty yards distance. The magazine may be reloaded easily within a half-minute. It is calculated I that with tbs shot of each cartridge |

scattering it is discharged, the gun, in the hands of a fairly accurate shot, is capable of disabling 150 men to the mmute. Marshal Arnold claimed that five men' armed with these weapons and fairly protected could easily dis* pose,of a my,b of 50,000 rioters.

THE [?]OT GUN (Showing the eartridge full size.)