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Show MAKE SELVES SICK TO ESCAPE DUTY I Woman Is Held To Be Leader of Gang Selling Powder to t the Soldiers j Spec al Cab e to Tl e Tribune PRIS April 8 Five persons are un der arrest here on a charge of supp ying , so d ers at the f ont with the means of , tricking the army sur0eons and getting I themselves sent home as no longer f t ; for ml ltar,y ser Ice j Ths la the way n which the gang vas ; d scovered me days ago the postal authorlt es opened an ertve ope addressed to a terrltor a suspecting that tl ere was something In t more han a letter Their ausp clons were justlf ed for they J s co ered four packe s of a grayish pode wrapped up n a sheet of note paper wh ch bore the fo ow ng message Dear Husband I have at last ds covered a powder wh ch wll g ve jou such palp tation of the heart that the surgeon major wll ha e "to send ou home I It was s gned Maries Foutboune and I ga e an address in Auber I 1 ers Tl e police commissary to whom the envelope j and I s con en s had been subm tted im I med ate y went to the address g ven and quest oned the woman She broke down and confessed and her avowa s have en ab ed the po ice to lay the r hands on a gang of f ve who It appears had been deriving a lucrat e trade n the sale of the powder to soldiers at the f ont |