The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-01-26


moment he hesitated, seeing Elaine
asleep Then he tiptoed over to the
bed let us say, and for a moment
looked at her, sleeping.
/ A second later he had thrust his
hand into his pocket and had taken out
a small glass bulb with long thin
/ neck, That was ethyl chloride-a
drug which produces a quick anesthe-
STA, But Ii lasts only minute or two
( That was enough. AS he broke the
I glass neck of the bulb-letting the
/ pieces fall on the floor near the bed
he showed the thing under Elaine's
face, turning his own head away and
+ holding a handkerchief over his own
nose. The mere heat of his hand is
+ enough to cause the ethyl chloride to
spray out and overcome her instantly.
+ lie steps away from her a moment and
replaces the now empty vial in his
pocket
/ Then he took a box from his pocket,
/ opened it, There must have been
+ syringe and bottle OF scopolamin
/ Where they came from / do not know,
but perhaps from some hospital. I
/ shah have to find that out later He
/ went to Elaine, quickly jabbing the
/ needle, with no resistance from her
/ now, Slowly he replaced the bottle
and the needle in his pocket He
! could not have been in any hurry now,
/ for it takes time for the drug to
! work"
| Kennedy paused. Had we known at
/ the time, AIichacl--he of sinister
| face-must have been in the hallway
/ that night, careful that no one saw
! him. A tap at the door and the
! "Clutching Hand" must have beckoned
! him. A moments parley and they sep
! arated-"Clutching Hand going back
! to Elaine, who was now under the in
| tiuence Of the second drug
! Our criminal" resumed Kennedy
| tboushtfully. may have shaken
Elaine She did not answer. Then he
may have partly revived her. She
i must have been startled. 'Clutching
/ Hand, perhaps, was half crouching,
with a big ugly blue steel revolver
| leyeied full in her face,
" One word and / shoot he prob
ably cried. Get up,'
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