POISON NEEDLE
EXCITEMENT IN- PARIS. ) AN OFFICIAL ARRESTED. ' LONDON, December 22. The poison needle scars is now developing into a panic. The first arrest-made was that of M. Fluery, a highly-respectable municipal official. He was riding on an omnibus when a lady dropped her bag. Both attempted tp pick up the article, when tbd lady"felt a sting in her wrist,' and accused? Fleury. A tremendous commotion followed, and another woman said that she saw a needle in Fleury’s hands. The passengers mobbed Fleury, who was arrested. The woman’s wrist was certainly pricked) but • Fleury was highly i'ndig nant at being accused-of the deed. Twenty women were pricked yesterday. The police medical expert says the prickers do not exist, hut that the women are victims of their own autosuggestion. However,, the women, produce evidence on their limbs of having beeii
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11412, 8 January 1923, Page 8
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