New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-06

might have been used To- inject 1rug
int her system. made closer search
later and found a common darn.hs
needle on the carpet. In the belief that
its point might have been tipped with
"A little known drug or poison, they srrt
il 10 chemist for analysis. II had
been suggested 10 Police Captain Tul,c
that curarc. South American poison
.arely heard of in the United States,
had been used.
Other Cases Reported.
So many reports have come 10 the
police Of Newark OF similar experiences
suffered by girls and young women
while unattended i'm theatres or depart
ment stores that there is Il general be-
lief that an organized gang Is at work.
members Of which take this method
of getting victims into their power
and afterward prey upon them. The
activity Of the Newark police and the
heavy bail in which Megsro was held
are the results OF this belief.
The Newark police late last night
learned of two other women who he'd
an experience similar 10 that of Mrs.
Grafr. one was Miss Mary Lee. a
stenographer. who, It is said, was
pricked in the hand in Shubert's Thea
tro and was being led out of the place
I'm dazcd condition 10y two men. Just
then her sister appeared and the men
hastened away The other woman is
Miss Jennie Clark. also a stenographer.
She was stabbed with needle in a
Market street theatre. The police Will
have the young women try TO identify
Megaro to-day.
The Crafts could not be seen at the
Belyidorc Hotel No. 500 Broad street.
Newark. Yesterday afternoon and even
ing. II was said they had returned TO
Brooklyn.
Dr. Pancrazio Mcgaro. OF No. 3lJ
High street, Newark. uncle Of Armand
said the youth came TO America with
him ten wears ago and knows nothing
Of South America and its mysterious
poisons. They came from Naples,
where the boys father, Carmine Me-
CARO-. a Jeweler. lives. The uncle gave
the nephew a course in the New Jersey
College of Pharmacy, but he made lit
lie progress and was advised TO leave
the institution and go TO work Dr'
Negaro SAYS he has not seen nm re-
cently. but he does not believe him
guilty of the charge Of poisoning MIS-.
Graft. He will not attempt To raise
the large bond.
eff the boy is innocent" he said,
"iustice will be done. II he Is guilty
| do not care TO interfere
Inquiry I'm this city yesterday re-
yealed general skepticism among
medical men as To the probability OF
curare or any other drug or poison
being effective when administered on
needle point.
pr Charles f. Bolduan assistant TO
the general medical officer Of the De
partment Of Health, said IT was almost
impossible. In his opinion, for person,
unless asleep. or willing, to be given a
hypodermic injection.
"At the touch of the needle" said Or.
Bolduan. "the body would he rehexly
withdrawn. Such action would pre-
vent the injection
Surgeons Are Skeptical.
"If morphine, hyocine or scopolamine
were used hypodermically," declared
DR.. Bolduan. the effect would be felt
in about fifteen minutes. and the per-
son would by that time be asleep"
Dr. John Mandel, of Bellevue. de-
clared that to cause any noticeable ef-
feet on a person with chloral horse
syringe would have to be used. The
Use of morphine, he declared. would
be the quickest means Of stupefying a
person.
William NJ. Ofiey, division superin-
tendent Of the Bureau OF Investigation
NJ the Department Of Justice, was
asked yesterday whether in his expert
ence In the governments fight against
trafficking in women he had heard Of
anv cases in which the victims were
made unconscious by a quick hypo-
dermic injection in the arm. Mr..
Of,,ey said he had never heard Of such
q case. G. T.. Craft, his assistant, said
he had heard such stories, but put little
faith in them.
James B. Reynolds, of the American