Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1914 — “Anaesthetic Pistol” Captures Mad Woman. [ARTICLE]

“Anaesthetic Pistol” Captures Mad Woman.

Paris, June 16.—The “anaesthetic pistol,” devised by city chemists at the time of the siege of the notorious automobile bandits, was used successfully tonight in the capture of a mad woman. Mlle. Maignan, an artist, In a fit of mania, shut herself in her apartment in the Avenue de Neuilly and threatened her neighbors from a window with a revolver. The police fired several shots at the woman but without effect. The anaesthetic pistol was then brought into service and .the woman was stuplfled with gases and removed to an infirmary.