DRUGGED ROSES.
A sensational train story reaches us from Berlin. A gentleman and his two sisters were travelling on a German railway, and were alone in the compartment. At one of the stations where they stopped an elegantlydressed and thickly-veiled lady entered the carriage, carrying a magnificent bunch of roses. When the train started she asked her companions if they would object to having the windows closed. The gentleman hastened to shut them for her. and as he did so apparently caused her to drop her roses. Of course, he picked them up
and handed them back to their owner. She thanked him charmingly, and asked him to keep one. and then graciously offered each of his companions a few of the flowers. They thanked her and accepted the blossoms, and after that they were conscious of nothing till their arrival at Berlin, when the veiled lady has disappeared, and with her their money and other valuables. The roses had been drugged.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue IX, 26 August 1899, Page 16
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162DRUGGED ROSES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIII, Issue IX, 26 August 1899, Page 16
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