Show USE DRUGS TO GAIN COURAGE after stimulant subsides ldes criminals criminal are cringing cowards again declares a writer stick up men shoplifters shop lifters burglar burgl artill and pickpockets pick pockets are the largest users of drugs most alost persons think morphine heroin cocaine and opium are ara indulged in by the criminal classes after the commission of 0 f a crime as ei a surcease for their minds nothing Is farther from the face facts sold said an old detective abe the criminal who works in the open uses ases drugs to supply him with courage it Is a sort of false courage for it dies out with alie effects of the opiate less without it your holdup man I 1 would never have the nerve te carry through a daylight robbery A CESS il of the drug addicts Is a roster ot of tho the crooks in nine eases cases out of ten of course after a time the criminals acquire a permanent appetite for drugs but the seeming super courage that sends beads a man with a pointed gun into a jewelry store filled with customers to grab trays of diamonds is only from the effect of the drug itala an hour later when the influence of the poison has worn off he Is left a crip ing cowering boward philadelphia ledger |