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Show Twilight Sleep Finds New Use In Crime Work Physician Declares Criminals Can Be Forced to Tell the Truth While Under Influence-of Influence-of Anesthesia HOT SPRlNfIS, Ark., Oct. 18 (Ry A. P.) Criminals can be forced to tel the truth rcRardins; their offenses while under the Influence of scopolamine scopola-mine anesthesia, or, as It Is better known, during "twliij;ht s;cep," according' ac-cording' to Pr. K. K. House. Ferris, Tex., physician, who has asked tho indorsement of the Medical Association Associa-tion of the Southwest for a proposed experiment on a thousand prisoners in the 1-ea ven worth Kan.) penitentiary to demonstrate his theory. I r. House has been experiment In if with the anesthesia for five years, h tojd members of the association, and declai - -d in that period, during which he hulx tried the "iwlliKhl sleep'' method of securins; evidence on a number of alb-ced criminals and others oth-ers in his on n state, he had never failed in an attempt to "rob tho mind of its stored truth-.". lie In now seeking permission, he told t he convention her, to s;o to I a-h ven worth prison and X-arry on t hesc experiments on the inmates of that institution. X "The anestln sla does not products A voluble condition," he sa id, "but at its most potent stage quest ions can be propounded, ami without failure, as jet, answers have been forthcoming. "If i h" twilight anesthesia were properly recognized and used for th purpo.f suggested,' lr. House continued con-tinued in . his .iddia s:. "many injustices injus-tices would become impossible." The eonventi'jii is expected to take act ion on Pr. I if tunc' r quesi for its indorsement of his plans f r further, cxp'-r. merits at its Mission today. Soon after nading hi ppcr on the Niibject he wa fin ted a vice president of the association. |