BOSTON, Jan. 30.—J. Ramson Bridges of this city, whose name appeared in connection with that of Charles S. Hill in an alleged exposé of the Keeley motor secret in Boston and New York Sunday papers, and who was accused in a statement issued last night by T. Burton Kinraid, who was supposed to be the sole possessor of the late inventor's secret, of breach of faith, today made a reply to Mr. Kinraid, in which he stated that the knowledge of the fraud was imparted to him without solicitation or request, and that he made no promise of secrecy and was under no obligation to keep silent. Mr. Bridges says:
“In addition to the evidences of fraud which I saw in Mr. Keeley’s laboratory, in Philadelphia, I also have seen since Mr. Keely’s death the most important of the experiments performed by Mr. Kinraid himself. Mr. Kinraid told both Mr. Hill and myself that the plain evidences of fraud covered every experiment done by Mr. Keely and as we had had ocular demonstrations of the tricks, we could not doubt the statement. I have been besieged by people who wanted to buy Keely motor stock and by others who wished to unload their stock until I finally decided that I was coming dangerously near condoning a fraud, and I urged Mr. Hill to let the whole story go, and he consented.’’

Published: January 31, 1899
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