Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — VICTIM OF HIS INVENTION. [ARTICLE]

VICTIM OF HIS INVENTION.

An Automatic Shaving Contrivance >d->— Mi. Dorman Will Re- i coves. I GiceU'j', Cole., Dec.' 30. John' Dorman, a local inventor, was the innocent cause of a riot call being! sen: to the police here, as"the result! of an operation of a patent automatic shaving device which he just completed. Dorman has a machine which _ls = guaranteed to shave the ordinary man in half the time it now takes, and he has followed the principle upon which a safety razor operates. He ‘tried it for the second time, when Something went wrong and a slice was taken off his nose and the end of his "chin. A spring broke' and the end- struck him over the eye. The commotion he created while getting' out of . his invention caused the neighbors to bplieve there was a family row in progress, and the police were. called. They found him bleeding and with a black eye, but he will recover.