AN OLD DETECTIVE'S STORY.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1897, Page 2

AN OLD DETECTIVE'S STORY.

Mr. Eichard Wood was not at home when, says an interviewer, I rang the bell at his residence, Norfolk House, Cornwallis-street, Hastings, but whilst I was enquiring he was pointed out crossing the road. His hale aud hearty appearance, erectness of stature, and cheeriness of manner, seemed almost to belie the fact that ex-Detective Sergeant Wood was, as he subsequently told me, turned 65, and thas many years of his life had been spent in active, service* exposed to all weathers, and engaged in arduous work such as cannot fail to tell on the physical frame. I asked a few questions about his experience. " Yes, v he- said, "I was often exposed to risk, sciatica and rbeuinatisn} being my chief troubles.' I Had suffered from them o"ff and on for about 15 ye^irs, and, a little while ago I was very bad with them. I think no man bas ever had rheumatism and sciatica worse than I have. When I was in the police force I have lain on the floor all 1 night in the police station, and they have had 1 to bring me home in a cab." ' " A short' time ago I hear you had an exceptionally bad attack ?" " Yes, and my wife thought that I should not get over it. My case seemed hopeless. You can hardly name a medicine that I have not taken. But these Pills that cured me as soon as I got to know them— Dr. Williams's Pink Pills for Pale People ,1' mean— are nothing like'otherCmedioine. I was induced to use them through reading of tho wonderful cure of a woman, at Dungenfess, and having done so I consider they are the medicine for any persou ailing. I feel quite a new man.' The Pills have put-new nerve into me. I used to have a good nerve at one time when in the police force, and wanted it for some of the jobs that I had- to do: The continuation of this sciatica and rheumatism — I also used to suffer from pains in the head— tended to weaken my nerve. But now I have the nerve to go out and hit a lion. The sciatica aud rheumatic pains have entirely gone from the hips and shoulders and other parts." Further interrogated, the ex-detective said he regarded the Pills as " the best medicine that is made." He was now equal to walking almost any distance — could walk to Eastbourne, 16 or 17 miles. ' Perhaps Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People never, had a more enthusiastic endorsement. Mr. Wood was only too anxious to tell in his interesting and intelligent manner of the fine remedy ho had proved Dr. Williams?. Pink Pills to be, as they are in all the many disorders , which arise from- an impoverished state of the blood and nerves, such as ansemia, pale and; sallow complex jpn, gensr>l ( muscular weakness, loss "of appetite, shortness of breath, pains in the back, nervous headaches, early decay, all forms of female weakness, hysteria, paralysis, locomotor ataxy, 'sciatica,"palpitations, low vitality, and wasting from any cause. . Dr. Willwns' Pink Pills are obtainable ftom all leading chemists, or from tbe "Dr. Williams' Medicine Gompany, Wellington, N;Z., who wiU -'forward/ (post' paid)') on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 3s, or hal£-ddze*n f# 15s 9d.^ Important ! — Be sure and see that tbe Pills are put up in wooden boxes, which are about 2iin in length and lin thick.