The Bullet-Proof Dress.
SUCCESSFUL TESTS. £200,000 CLAIMED FOR THE INVENTION. (Per Press Association.) London. May 29. The Londou County Couucil threaten to prohibit practical tests of Herr Dowo's bullet-proof cuirass taking- place iv music halls, owing to tbe fact of a girl j assistant having been wounded. Tbe military authorities are convinced of the strength of tbe cuirass. Tbe Prince of Wales viewed some tests made with an armour-clad horse. At the Alhambra Music Hall two shots from a Lce-Mitford rifle were fired at Horr Dowe, who was wearing his bullet-proof cuirass. Dowe passed through the ordeal without harm. He asks two hundred thousand pounds for his invention.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 327, 31 May 1894, Page 2
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108The Bullet-Proof Dress. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 327, 31 May 1894, Page 2
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