TELL-TALE DRUG
Thousands of criminals now live in feS of an insignificant yellow flower SS flourishes in English lanes and on meadow banks. It is the coarse, hairySafed henbane, from which the drug 1 i i« nrenared. According STtrS .well-known SimeStudent, the effect of this drug u to plunge the taker into a sort of wilight sleep. While in this tranceike condition, he cannot lie or remain silent for though losing control of his mental processes, he must answer every | oJesUon put to him. In America the police are using the, drug to extort confessions from criminals. Not long, aao they captured a member of a glng of axe murderers in Birmingham Alabama. Put to third-degree methods, he failed to talk. But when, dosed with scopolamine, the gangster ! revealed every wanted detail about 'his confederates. The whole gang I was thus brought to book.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 12
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144TELL-TALE DRUG Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 129, 2 June 1936, Page 12
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