FATAL EXPERIMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 30 January 1907, Page 4

FATAL EXPERIMENT

l'aris, December :!. M. Cape], a distinguished chemist and alchemist, who has long bee n 'trying to manufacture goat brou'd'it about the death of himself and Ills entire family iast ni'.dit ju s t wlcm he I'elievcd that he had solved the golden riddle. ° M. Capel has recently hinted in several people that he had made ;,„ important discovery in his experiments at gold production, „nd he wrote to Ins brother saivng that In' believed he was on She way to solving the I,lob lem. ' He culled liis wife and three childr.'ii into his 'abatorv at IVme, last night, and showed them what appeared to be a nugget of o'd. He was explaining lo them the pro cess he had ir-ed. when he inadver.antlv pushed a basin ronlaining some gunpowder too near the lamp.'.i (..,-. rific explosion followed, b'owing up fee entire laboratory and leaving it a heap of ruins. Neighbors rushed to the rescue, and with great dilheuity were able to recover the shattered ho.lv of (he alchemist, his wife and three children. 'The wife was stilt-able to speak, but, she died on her way to the hospital. Tee alchemist has left no trace of his secret discovery.