POLICEMAN DRUGGED
Motorist Fires Dart
(N.Z P.A .-Reuter—Copyright > ATLANTA (Georgia). May 9. A policeman was drugged by a speeding motorist who threw* a chemically-tipped dart in the patrolman s face in Atlanta today. The patrolman, Mr E. A. Clements, said he pulled up alongside a late-model car at an intersection after he timed it at speeds of up to 60 miles an hour.
The motorist raised his right hand and the policeman felt a sting in his left cheek. Clements said he regained consciousness a short time later. He was slumped over in the front seat of his car, which had run up on to the kerb.
The motorist bad disappeared. Police said the dart was believed to have been treated with nicotine alkaloid, a drug which naturalists and others use on the end of dart* to stun wild animals. Doctors removed a sliver of metal from Clements's left cheek.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 22
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150POLICEMAN DRUGGED Press, Volume C, Issue 29510, 11 May 1961, Page 22
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