A week of inspection revealed little about the Guinness Device. Unconfirmed reports say that the eleven abducted a prostitute, murdered her in cold blood and subjected her body to unspeakable experiments with the machine. When their efforts failed to revive her, the group broke into factions and argued about what should be done. In the third week of October, police were called to the Black Sparrow Inn and discovered the bodies of eight of the eleven members of the conference. Missing were Piekos, Clarke and Robertson...as well as the Guinness Device.
At the estate sale of one Mildred N. Homer of Providence, Rhode Island in 1975, an engineering student purchased what was alleged to be the Guinness Device. It was donated to Harvard University's Antiquities Collection where it was dismissed as merely a conversation piece.
That all changed in 2003 when its air bladders and gyros began moving completely of their own accord. When sheets of paper were placed under it, it wrote the stories you now read on this website. It continues to write, and signs each chapter with a signature that exactly matches historical documents of N. D. Piekos's handwriting.
c. 1906. Pictured left to right: C. M. Guinness, Colonel Shane Clarke, N. D. Piekos and Stuart Robertson
