File:Edna Pitkin and Leo Krause in The Buffalo Times of Buffalo, New York on 8 October 1922.jpg

Bullets Didn't Even Tickle. Captain Edna Pitkin, New York, New York. Captain Edna Pitkin, of New York's women police reserves, was shot twice without so much as losing the dignity becoming an officer. Leo Kraue, inventor of a bulletproof vest, used her as a target for a 38-caliber bullet fired from a police revolver while a photographer skipped three heartbreats as he snapped his shutter. "Didn't even tickle," said Captain Pitkin, whose husband is Robert Pitkin, the actor. She was wearing the bullet-proof vest, of course, which has been adopted by the New York police department for officers engaged on perilous duty, weighs only 12 pounds and can be worn under the coat without betray- " "ivNV ' - " -' i t Didn't Even Tickle; Her Vest Was Steel Vest. lx Kranse, Inventor, Firing ing its presence. , It protects every vital part of the body front, back, and sides. Bullets are stopped, flattened, and held without glancing. The vest is proof a rftint rust. i Only four thin layers of clock-spring steel and four equally thin layers of metallized fabric stood between Captain Pitkin and; sudden death. But they were enough.

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