Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1915 — USES NEEDLE IN CRIME. [ARTICLE]

USES NEEDLE IN CRIME.

Injects Narootic to Stupefy Traveler Victim. A few nights ago a French gentleman was traveling from Bordeaux to Paris In a first-class corridor carriage. There was only one otbeg oocupant of the compartment—a mao wearing a fur ulster. The two travelers settled themselves down to sleep and the man In the fur coat drew the shade over the lamp so as to make the light dim. The first passenger then fell sound asleep and remembered nothing more until the train stopped for a few minutes at a large station about t o’clock In the morning. The other occupants of the carriage Immediately left the train and his fellow traveler was turning over to go to sleep again when he became aware of a peculiar pcnsatlon on the left side of his nose Immediately under the eye. He mechanically rubbed the spot when it smarted a little. His head also seemed heavy and he was unable te go to sleep again, only dozing slightly. On reaching Paris In the morning he discovered that hiß pocketbook, containing S2OO In notes, was missing from the left Inside pocket of his coat The only other person who had entered the carriage was the furcoated man who had got out in the night. After relating the circumstances to the police he drove to hir usual hotel and there his attention was called to the fact that there was something the matter with his left sge. He consulted a doctor, who told him that he had been .subjected to an Injection of some narcotic by means Of a surgical needle. The doctor added that the stranger could easily have killed him by Injecting a poison Instead of a narcotic.

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