WEIRD EFFECT OF A DRUG.
j HAKES ONE SPEAK THE TRUTH. I i Reports. from San Quentin Penitent i* _ . arv, California, that convict.- under the influence of scopolamin are incapable of toiling an untruth arc received bv eminent Xc£\y York pfpvsicians with a good deal of seep*icism. although tho j positive claims of definite achievements I have aroused a desire to conduct ex* v per i men I > in the I-a.-torn .States. lJr. | Richard House. a Texan physician, | who Injected the drug into the San Quentin convicts while prison o file ia Is | and criminal investigator- looked on, | declares that scopolarnin. which is used | to induce *‘ x vili ght-sleep } * in maiern--1 itv ease.-. removes all mental inhibition I ar.d deprives the subjects of reasoning ! pov or. so that' they are incapahle of | lying, while their other faculties romain intact.
! One convict convicted or murder I v.dio was submitted to the drug proved | i.itir?eii innocent. while two other?. ;t. is claimed. revealed their guilt and confessed other crime?. "When infotrutj'i of ' i:- results 01 the experiments the warden of diner Sing. the X'-tv York Stare prison. t-sid "no teas anxious to conduct o.vperitnen*? with the drug, which. if --f.ecosfful, would solve o • myriad problems. Several hfe-.-.- ’York 'medical experts, including Dr. Ciar-mce . .Dalton, of the National Committee for Mental t!;-_ • . admitted that their; observations bad convinced them, that patier.'s under the influence of the drug were reduced to a semi-hypnotic ; .-•arr-, in which they pes,.’-_-ed no co:i---rciou-- - respond to r. -tettu -M question with anything \at truthful answer. On the other hand. Dr. i Schlapp, psycl r•r. •• of the Post-Gra-1 uuate Hospital. Xe-.r York, described i the use_o_f the .drug as grotesque, nod' declared that the idea of trying to? solve crime from 'the phantasmagoria 'of■ babble-coming from a drugged p-er- ; son was ahstir’o. nr.d Said fhar ihe weirl i information thus obtained • would not [ be accepted bv anv court. s * —— :
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Otaki Mail, 7 September 1923, Page 4
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