OCR Text |
Show USE DRUGS TO GAIN COURAGE After Stimulant Subsides, Criminal Are Cringing Cowards Again, Declares De-clares a Writer. Stick-up men, shoplifters, burglar and pickpockets are the largest user of drugs. Most persons think morphine, mor-phine, heroin, cocaine and opium are indulged in by the criminal dassw after the commission of a crime as surcease for their minds. "Nothing is further from the fact. said an old detective. "The criminal who works in the open uses drugs tat supply him wilh courage. It Is a tort of false courage, for It dies out wifta. the effects of the opiale. Nevertheless Neverthe-less without It your holdup nam would never have the nerve to eanr through a daylight robbery. A census of the drug addicts Is a roster or rt crooks In nine cases out of ten. Of course after it time the criminals c quire a permanent appetite for dm-but dm-but the seeming super-courage I sends a man with a pointed gun a jewelry store filled with cus to grab trays of diamonds is on' ulated from the effect of t' Half an hour later when the of the poison has worn off 1 A i H cringing, cowering cowan' phla Ledger. Jv. |