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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4482, 20 October 1922, Page 4

An extraordinary story has reached the Melbourne police to the effect that a man armed with a hypodermic syringe is frequenting/ theatre? and doping people. The police have so far failed to confirm the reports. The manager of a City picture theatre was approached recently by an agitated young man, who related 'how, as lie was. approaching his seat, he felt a sharp prick oh his right elbow. He sat down, another man pushing past and sitting in the next seat. Presently he commenced to feel drowsy, and went to the manager’s office. Meantime the other man had departed, and could hot be found. The circumstances point to its having been an attempted robbery, as the young man was wearing a valuable scarf pin and a gold .watch. The police discount the doping theory. Stories hav§ been circulated of men having attempted to dope young girls with hyperdermic syringes in city picture theatres.