SOLDIERS DRUGGED IN MELBOURNE
Cases .have recently come under the notice of the Australian Defence ■ Department which indicate that a drug is being used by certain confidence :;ien and women.in Melbourne for the purpose of rendering their victims incapable before robbing them. The Acting-State Commandant, Brigadier-General Williams, said that a few days ago a young 'soldier had been taken to the Military Hospital in such a condition as 1 to nrous'e suspicions that he had been doped. As a result of further investigations the hospital authorities concluded that the patient had been given a drug in a cigarette. Other cases of a similar nature had also come under notice, and it had been ascertained that there was traffic in a drug which was very injurious to anyone, and particularly* to invalids. The sale of the drug, BrigadierGeneral Williams added, was a contravention of the law, and eteps wore being taken to proceed against tiny person offending. Wherever evidence'could be secured prosecutions would follow.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 5
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163SOLDIERS DRUGGED IN MELBOURNE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 5
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