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Having learned that no one claim-ant could beat Bell in the courts, this Drawbaugh's defeat sent the Bell stock up once more, and brought on a them as his own. He was a trailer of inventors. More than forty expenses of this adventure. Wires were strung; stock was sold; and the not diminished by the loss of his telephone claims, as he came to public Xerxes' army of opposition which called itself the "Overland Company." for an injunction against it, they were refused. This was as hard a blow the promoters until the Overland Company was thrown out of court, as was severely scored by the judge, who accused him of "deliberately the Bell stock tumbled thirty-five points in a few days. Infringing instances of this imitative habit were shown at the trial, and he companies sprang up like gourds in the night. And all went merrily with He was a subscriber to The Scientific American; and it had become the and such a general turmoil was aroused that the Bell lawyers were company massed the losers together and came forward with a scrap-basket as the Bell people received in their eleven years of litigation; and loved to display his mechanical skill before the farmers and villagers. pound of ammunition they possessed. having no evidence, except "the refuse and dregs of former cases--the view again in 1903 as a trailer of Marconi. fixed habit of his life to copy other people's inventions and exhibit The fact about Drawbaugh is that he was a mechanic in a country village full of patents. Several powerful capitalists undertook to pay the near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was ingenious but not inventive; and compelled to take the attack seriously, and to fight back with every falsifying the facts." His ruling passion of imitation, apparently, was enterprise looked for a time so genuine that when the Bell lawyers asked

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