sleeping trayeller drugged.

Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 45

sleeping trayeller drugged.

Recently a French gentleman was travelling from Bordeaux: to Paris in a fir->t cla«- corridor carriage. There was only one other ocoupant of the compartment — a nidn wi-aiintr a fur ulster. The two travWli-r 5 themselves down to sleep, and the man in the fur coat drew the ■}'ij<lc fi\er the lamp so as to make the Us; lit dun The first passenger then lull sound asleep, and remembered nothing more until the train stopped for a few inirintoc at a large station about 2 o'clock in the morning. The other occupant of the eairiage immediately left the train, and his fellow-traveller was turning over to no to sleep again when he became aware of a peculiar sensation on the left eide of his nose, immediately under the eye. He mechanically rubbed the spot, when it smarted a little. His head also seemed hea\y, and he was unable to go to sleep again, only dozing slightly. On reaching Paris in the morning he discovered that his pocket-book, containing his railway ticket and £49 m notes, was missing from the left inside pocket of his coat. The only other jjerson who had entered the carriage Tas the fur-coated man who had got out in the night. After relating the circumstances to the police, he drove to his usual hotel, and theT© his attention was called to the fact that there was something the iratter with his left eye. 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 tho stranger could easily have killed him by injecting a pouon instead of a narcotic.