QUEER ADVENTURE OF A REPORTER.
An enterprising r« porter for a New York paper posed the other day as a lunatic in order to gain admittance to Bellevue Hospital for the purpose of obtaining facts for a sensational "exposure.''
He started by rushing into the corridor of the Fifth- Avenue Hotel, howling like a dervish. He was promptly arrested and clubbed by a policeman. Then he was taken to the Bellevue, where the alert medical man lost no time in discovering tbe sham. This is what he did to the alleged lunatic:—
Gave him a powerful emetic. Put him on milk diet. Administered ice-cold shower-baths. Gave him injections of morphine. Would not let him sleep. Gave him a stomach-jramp treatment Vaccinated him. Gave'him an electric bath. Pulled out two teeth.
. Told him he had a cancer on his brain, and that his head there would have to be cut open.
Thereupon the "lunatic" gave a yell of terror and confessed.
He was taken to the police station, and was severely lectured by the magistrate. He then returned to the editor, and was promptly dismissed for incompetence.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 38, 20 December 1901, Page 3
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186QUEER ADVENTURE OF A REPORTER. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, Volume 1, Issue 38, 20 December 1901, Page 3
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