Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1913 — LIGHT GLOBE FOR DEFENSE [ARTICLE]

LIGHT GLOBE FOR DEFENSE

Electrical Weapon Invented by Philadelphian Will Bubdue the Disorderly. Philadelphia.—Policemen, obdurate criminals, women who have to be abroad at night, reformers, working girls ana Johnny pestered members of the chorus—there’s a combination! — ought to rise up and call blessed Jeremiah Creedon, the Philadelphia North American says. Mr. Creedon, one of the oldest and most respected engineers of the Baltimore and Ohio, has evolved by profound thought on his days off an invention. which, he says, will revolutionize methods of “making arrests, subduing unruly persons and resisting attacks.** And Uncle Sam has just signed, sealed and delivered to him a patent for his device. “Don’t ‘club ’em; shock ’em,” is Mr. Creedon’s advice to the police in handling the obstreperous. He proposes to arm the guardian of the law with nbie lightning, easily applied. gh the hands, where it will do the most good. With the same Innocent means of defense, he points out. the timid spinster may come and go at any hour, the shop girl need no longer use her hatpin (is a lethal weapon. For, at the waist of each unprotected female there may be a battery, and in her gloves electrodes; and she has simply to grasp an assailant, be he footpad or masher, and he becomes helpless in her hands. It was the sight of an unruly prisoner being cluHbed Into submission that stirred the compassion and the inventive genius of Mr. Creedon. He’s

a big, two fisted chap himself, but he couldn’t stand the spectacle of even a criminal suffering such needless punishment Prom this his idea grew until he saw how it could be adapted for the protection of night workers and unescorted women. Creedon’s device is simple yet effective. It consists essentially of a pair of gloves provided with electrodes. which may be brought in contact with an assailant by the hand of the wearer. An electric circuit is i formed as soon as the electrodes are touched and the current is sufficient to administer such a shock that the victim will be helpless as long as the Current is kept on.