ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6131, 18 March 1898, Page 1

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

♦ CRITICAL CONDITION OF THE VICTIM.

ARREST OF THE OFFENDERS. Another addition has been made to the already long list of victims to highway robbery, which, though now less frequent than a few years back, still occasionally occurs to menace life and liberty. Mr W. Le Paige, of Maud Street, Chilnell, Geelong, Victoria, whilst driving along the highway from Panmure to Terang, was suddenly precipitated from his vehicle into a heap of blue metal, by which he sustained a fractured skull and other injuries to his head, subsequently developing into an attack of paralysis of the brain, which laid him low, until at a later date, his illness was arrested by Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. To a reporter of the Footscray Chronicle, Mr Le Paige gave the following particulars of his illness and recovery : - " The cause of my being thrown was the horse taking fright and bolting," said he, " the immediate result being that I had to take to my bed for several weeks, months elapsing before I became convalescent, in fact, I never completely recovered until recently. At times I was seized with most excruciating pains at the base of the skull, and so inclined tostrange actions that my friends were seriously considering the advisability of having me medically examined as to my mental condition. Brain paralysis, some medical experts termed it; shock to the system and nervous headaches was the verdict of others. Ch&nge of scene was advised, and I tried all parts of Australia without success. At' unexpected times I would experience severe headaches with spells of sleeplessness that often induced the mental query, 'Is life worth living?' and I can tell you at times I felt very much inclined to take the answer into my own hands. Some four months since I was induced to try Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in place of sleeping draughts, and the effect has been marvellous. In less than a week my brain became clear, the headaches that had troubled me continually disappeared, my natural rest returned, and in a few weeks I was as well as ever. During the last few weeks I have been out continuously, and the hottest day has caused me no inconvenience. I don't profess to know much of drugs or medicines, but I do know that a few boxes of Dr Williams' Pink Pills did for me what doctors in and out of hospitals in three colonies failed to accomplish. That I am a sane man to-day, and in good health, I attribute to the sole use of Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I am a native of Greelong, and am well-known there ; also in Melbourne and the western districts of Victoria." Thousands have been cured of paralysis, locomotor ataxia, spinal disease, rheumatism and sciatica ; also diseases arising from impoverished and vitiated humors of the blood, which cause scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and lungs, antemia, pale and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all forms of female weakness and hysteria, by Dr Williams' Pink Pills. The genuine Pills are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inches in length, each of which is encircled by a blue warning label. The outside wrapper has the full name, Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red on white paper. la case of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr Williams Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing the price, -is a box, or six boxes for 15s 9d. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could injure the most delicate child.