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Show KNOCKOUT DROPS WERE ADMINISTERED Three men. giving their names as E. J. Welch, Charles Johnson and George Riley, were arrested on Saturday Satur-day night y Officers Hadlock and Chambers and landed in Jail under suspicion of having engaged In the pastime of placing a drug In one of the glasses while they were dnnklng. LVrputy Hadlock stepped Into tho Arcade saloon In the afternoon and noticed an Intoxicated man being led up to the bar by two companions, who wore apparently sober. Tho latter ordered drinks, and while ono of them distracted tho attention of the drunken n.an, Hadlock not.ced the other drop something into the fellow's fel-low's glass, which bubbled on its way to the bottom, but did not attract the attention of the prospective drinker. The two, having observed that their action had been seen by the officer, thn attempted to turn it into a joke I by st.rTing up their beer with their i fingers, and also that of the third man. Before the officer could Interfere the latter suddenly raised his glass and drained Its contents. Hadlock immediately started to secure a city officer, and on finding Defective Chambers, Cham-bers, tho two began a search for the trio, who had disappeared In the meantime. The men wore traced to an alley, where they had been seen to lead thdr alleged victim to the rear of a building and go through his pockets. The third man was found near by practically senseless from the drug which had been dropped into his beer, and shortly afterwards the other two were apprehended. AH three wero )-cked up und the two pals will be held until their victim regains his nientnl faculties sufficiently to tell if he was robbed. Little money was found on any of the men, but the two were away "long enough to have rid themselves of any Incriminating loot which they may have obtained fiou the ( rnirireil ronn'.i n,-r-loi . |