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Excerpt from The Trials for Treason at Indianapolis: Disclosing the Plans for Establishing a North-Western Confederacy
N o. 2 exhibits its internal arrangement. Ah alarm-clock, with the bell removed, set to any given time, springs the lock of a gun, the hammer.of which, striking and exploding a cap, placed upon a tube filled with powder, fires a train connected with a bottle of Greek fire. The explosion of these combustibles ig nites the tow, saturated with turpentine, with which the remainder of the portmanteau is filled.
No. 3 is a conical shell, three and a half inches in diameter.
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