A little earlier in the evening the medical attendant had found it necessary to order the prisoner a little medicine.
No. 87.
PEACE’S LEAP FROM THE TRAIN.
This he refused to take; “but,” said the warder, “it was the doctor’s orders, and we were bound to carry them out.”
Peace screamed violently, and the warder stated that he found a good deal of force necessary to compel the prisoner to take the potion, which, it is believed, was a slight opiate.
“Even now, after all he has gone through,” said the warder, “he seems to have more than the strength of an ordinary man.”
The warder added that, having been himself afoot since two o’clock in the morning, he felt much exhausted. After taking the medicine the prisoner was less excited, but did not seem to sleep at all easily.
The police understood that the prisoner was to be retained in Sheffield till all is over. Not only in Sheffield, but at Darnall and Bannercross, where Mr. Dyson was well known, at Shireoaks, Kineton Park, and Worksop, near where the prisoner lived, and all round the district; an unparalleled interest was shown in the prisoner’s latest escapade.
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