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Show 'shot' of the real article, administered 1 by Dr. Anna Ries, brought him safely through the ordeal and he is now resting rest-ing easily. ' Stratton has had difficulty in harmonizing har-monizing the occasional dose of morphine mor-phine dealt out by the jail officials wlrh what his outraged system craves for, and after beln denied the quantity quan-tity that he desired yesterday the fellow fel-low decided to try a substitute. Procuring h spoonful of water and Home smoking tobneco, be cooked the mixture over, a .cigarette paper fire until he had obtained' a nicotine solution sol-ution sufficient to have killed several ordinary men. Then puncturing the skin with 11 sharp, nail he proceeded to Inject the strong solution Into his veins with the Immediate result that he became a ravine maniac. The city physician was called and by the time she arrived St ration was In convulsions. His partner, Care Crosby, who Is also a drug fiend In the last stages, managed to set Strat-ton Strat-ton into the jntl office where he was treated bv the physician, au Injection or morphine being given him lo ea the pain. At last, reports he was slowly rfc-; rfc-; covering from the effects of his dan-; dan-; g-roi:s experiment. TRIES TO EHD ALL JR18LES George St ration, one of the "dope heads' confined in the city jail, charged charg-ed with the crime ot burglary, bad a narrow escape from death yesterday when he sought to relieve his craving for- morphine by injecting a solution ot tobacco juice into bis veins. For a time It waj thought that the unfortunate "fiend'' could not survive the effects of the poison but a liberal |