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Show THE LATEST AID FOR CRIMINALS. A number of detectives sat In bored attitudes In their room In tho city hall the other night, when the Chief entered llo had 11 ring In hl hind, nnd the men examined It wllh much Interest. "It Is a knockout ring, sold Capt. Mlllei, a little liter. ' It has, ou see, a, very big and apparently solid seal In It. Touch this spring, and tho seal falls back, showing Itself tn be a mere shell, nnd revealing a qullo large, tup-shaped tup-shaped hollow. In this hollow tho liquid dope laudanum, or whatever It muse be is placed. Then tho ring Is cloked ogiln. Now, here, on tho side, so thnt It can be worked by the finger adjoining It, Is another spring. Press this, and a drop ot Ihe dope comes out at each pressure Don't ou s"o the advantngo of such a, ring? With it you 1 in dopo a vlctlm'o drink in his very presence. Ynu tit side by side with him. You tun soui hand absently over his glass You press tho spring, nnd, picatol tho thing Is done. Ills next swallow puts the quietus on him. These rlnga are the newest nnd most Ingenious In-genious devices of tho criminal world that I have tome across In a long time." Philadelphia Record. |