ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9395, 23 March 1898, Page 3

ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.

Critical Condition of the Victim.

Arrest oi the Offenders.

Another addition has been made to the already long list of viotims to highway robbery, which, though now less frequent than a few years back, still occasionally occurs to Jnenaoe life and liberty. MrW. he Paige, of Maude-Street, Chilnell, Geelong, Victoria, whilst driving along the highway from Pammure to Terang, was suddenly precipitated from his vehicle into a heap of blue metal, by which he sustained a fractured Bkull 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 "^Villiams Pink Pills for Pals People. To a reporter of the FeOtsfoay Chronicle, Mr {■c Paige gavfl the following particulars / 6f lite illness and recovery : — " The causs 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 seised ■with most excruciating pains at the base of the skull; and so inclined to strange actions, that ttty friends w6re seriously Considering the advisability of having me medically exWainedaßtomy mental condition. Brain paralysis, some medical experts termed it, shock to the system and nervous headaob.es was the verdict of other*; Change of scene was advised, and I tried all parts of Australia without succes. At unexpeoted times I would experience severe headaches with spells of sleeplessness that t>f ten indu&od tllo mental query, 'Is life wdtth 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 lees than a week my brain became clear, the headaches that had" troubled me continually disappeared! my natural rest returned, and in a tew weeks 1 was as Well as ever. During the last few weeks Ihave been out continuously, and the hotteet day has caused me ho inconvenience. I don't pro1 feaa to know much of drugs or medicines, but I do know that a few boxes of Dr i Williams' Pink Pills did for me what Sectors in ana out of hospitals in three Colonies failed to accomplish. That lam <-& sane mau to-day, and in good health, I attribute to the sole use of Dr AVilliams' Pink Pills lor pale People. lam a native of Geelong, and am well known there ; - also in Melbourne and the Western distriots cf Victoria." . Thousands have been cured of paralysis ' Jocomotor 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, anromia, pale and sal- * low complexion, general muscular weak-■V-noss, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains t!!in the back, nervous headache, early ae■fir . '

cay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria oy Dr Williams' Pink Pills. The genuine Pills are sola only in wooaen boxes, about two iuches in length, each of which is encirclea by a blue warning lnbel. The outsiao wrapper has the fu!l name, Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printod in red on white paper. In case of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing tho price, 3b a box, or six boxes for 15s 9d. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could injure the moat delicate child.