A Strange Hallucination.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 1 August 1890, Page 3

A Strange Hallucination.

OPIUM AND CHLOBOFORM. Melbourne City magistrates were told a str singe ■tory by a young man the other morning who, from all accounts, had be«n leading * respectable lift ; but fal ing in more latterly with evil companions, free y indulged in drink, and soon spent the little money he had managed to save up. 0) had bten remanded on thrcs previous occasions, and baing con* bidered in a fit •ondition now, was brought up to explain his conduot. Ht stated that a few weeks ago some person bl«w opium dust in ; ; Ilia f»et.; aud era* since then be had .40 idat that hi* life was worth insuring, a .circumstance which had oot impressed itself so much on him before. . " ' The Bench : Was it a Chi aman -who bl«w tht opium dust in your fa*»? Prisoner: I can't say. The arresting constable stated that the prisoner was seen running down a main tb.oroughf.re in Broad* meadows, with as much clothes on a.s the Apollo Belvidere. He held in hii hands a long pole, at the end of whioh were flying his e'othes ; and he continued calling at the top of his voice that somebody had steeped them in chloroform. It was evident that all this was the result of a few orgies, hut ns the prisoner "appeared to be well Hgain, he was warned and discharged.