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At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not informative, which is why we have been working longer-than-usual hours trying to piece together the plans that were buried with Jacob Gehris's dismembered body parts. We have at this point successfully located all of his body parts along with the plans from all but the hand. We believe those plans are in the hands of the Parent Corporation, and we believe that they may include plans for a clapper-like device. We still cannot reveal everything in the documents buried with Mr. Gehris, but we would like to give you the information we can provide.

We know that he called his greatest invention "Aunt Gertrude." After spending many hours with our intelligence experts we believe that revealing what we know about "Aunt Gertrude" will not put our operatives in danger and will not empower the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch. From the plans we have, we know that "Aunt Gertrude" was a rudimentary burglar alarm. It used mechanical means to turn on the gas to a lamp and strike a match. The lamp would light, illuminating the room it was in and alerting the occupants of the room that the signal had been received. The trigger mechanism is not depicted on the plans which we have in our possession. While we cannot be completely sure, we believe that the trigger mechanism was the clapper-like device that "Edgar" left on our computer system. According to the notes on the plans we have, the device was to serve as a burglar alarm. You might wonder why anyone would build a burglar alarm that would only trigger if the burglar clapped his hands twice in close succession, but we understand that agents of the Company at the time often used claps in close succession as a signal to other operatives of their presence. Thus, Mr. Gehris had designed in "Aunt Gertrude" a way to know whether the Company was in his home. The documents we do have suggest that he was killed to prevent this invention from becoming available to the general public, and that the plans for it were separated. It appears that the Company hoped to leverage Jacob's tool against him, but never got the chance.

We are very pleased to have discovered this wonderful tool for counter-intelligence, even if it is rather arcane by now. There is, of course, more to the documents than the plans to the clapper-alarm, but we haven't finished our deliberations on whether to make this information public just yet.