DRUGGED CIGARETTE
MAKES THIEF’S WORK EASY. Representing himself to be a post office inspector, a stranger walked into the police station at Oklahoma and gave the officer on duty a drugged cigarette. The officer became unconscious,' and while he was in that state the stranger walked out with finger-print evidence obtained by the police from a bottle of explosive used in a robbery of a Santa Fe mail car near Edmond, Okla.
The stranger (says the ‘ Central News ’) gave the name of “Mr Williams,” and the police officer, named Murphy, produced the finger-prints. As they were talking the stranger offered the cigarette. Murphy lighted this, and after talking for two or three minutes longer ho lost his senses. He last remembered the stranger saying as he reached for the finger-prints: “ Well, 1 got you that time.” It took doctors three hours to revive Murphy. It is stated that the authorities know the drug which is used in these cigarettes, and that it is possible to roll enough of it in one cigarette to kill a man-
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Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 12
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176DRUGGED CIGARETTE Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 12
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