Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-10-23

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or other drink. The police are con-
tinually running up against cases of
this sort.
The most unscrupulouS and the most
cowardly criminal is the one who calls
upon the druggist to aid him in his
nefarious business. There are many
drug stores, especially in the "leyee"
district, where there is frequent call
for morphine and for chloral hydrate.
The former is easily soluble in any
liquid and is very powerful and quick
in its action. The only trouble with
morphine is that it is dangerous. An
overdose is fatal and it is an easy mat
ter to administer too much. Fatal re-
suits are not sought by this species of
cowardly criminals. Death results in
rigid investigation, and the peniten~
tiary awaits the detected criminal.
Choral hydrate, on the other hand,
is easily administered in beer or
whisky, and while it is not so power
full nor so rapid in its effects, still
it is effective in many cases. This drug
has a pungent taste and a rather pro-
nounced odor. 1t is usually obtained
in saturated solution and not used
until the victim is pretty well intoxi-
Gated, so that the taste will not be per-
ceptible. :,
It's effect is soporific. The person
who has been drugged by it usually
feels dizziness come over him. A few
minutes later it is all up with him and
a person could rob him with impunity.
Said one druggist:
81 have calls for choral hydrate
every little while, but 1 will not sell
it, / know what it is to be used for. [
think druggist who sells it to any
but physicians should have his license
revoked.
81 have known where big price was
offered for a bottle of the drug. In
fact, not long ago man came to my
store and offered me ten dollars for
small amount of the drug. He wanted,
so ascertained, to use it on party of
men in his room. They were playing
poker and he wanted to skin the whole
gang. 1 refused to sell it and ordered
him out of the store"
Lecherous brutes put knockout
drops to the most dastardly use.
Many a young girl, giddy, but not
wicked, can trace her ruin to the use
of one or the other of the drugs used
by the criminal class to aid them in
their crimes.
A favorite method is that of placing
the stuff in candy. If the girl may be
induced to drink wine the drug is adj
in that manner. Helpless,
under the soporifc influence of the
the girl falls an easy prey
to the cowardly brute who would take
so mean an advantage, and many a
career of shame has been begun
through the administration of one or
the other of these criminal drugs.
Not long since two women on the
North side robbed a man of consider
able money through the use of some
drug. They, however, gave him an
overdose and he died from the effects.
The women became frightened after
they found he did not revive and fled,
leaving him sitting in an unconscious
condition.
Elderly men from the rural districts
who come to town with nice little
roll of bills and want to see the seamy
side of the great city are often the vic
Tins of thf knockout drop users. The
victims fall an easy prey
to pretty women and the rest is easy.
few cold bottles and few hot birds
and a little of the drug and the elderly
gentlemen with the sportive procliy-
tiles has been separated from his hard
earned coin, and is set adrift in the city
like ship in midocean, rudderless.