Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-04 | Page 6 | Hypodermic Syringe in Crime

Hypodermic Syringe In Crime. Du Chaillon, who Invented the hypodermic hy-podermic syringe, seems to have been o sort of Fagln. He established In Paris a school of crime from which such youngsters as "Charley Bates" and the "Artful Dodger" graduated. Stimulated by an injection of morphine mor-phine or some other drug, they went out to do great deeds in the criminal line. When the "school" was raided the principal escaped, but evidence was. found to show his part in some ! daring crimes. Physicians attnehed to the criminal bureau saw the great advantage of the hypodermic syringe, and it has ever since been a reco;-nized reco;-nized agency In medical practice.