As the snake struck at the boy, the dog gave battle, and finally killed the snake. The dog was bitten by the snake and a veterinary was called to treat it.
PRISONERS TELL TRUTH UNDER NEW MEDICINE
Man Convicted of Murder Is Acquitted as Result.
Scopolamin, an alkaloid, was used in experiments on three inmates of San Quentin prison here, as a result of which John L. Farrar, convicted of the murder of a Chinese in Sacramento, was adjudged innocent; Eugene O'Leary, a former service man sentenced from Sacramento on a grand larceny charge, provided authorities with information as to his identity; and John D. Johnson, negro, admitted his guilt and confessed to participation in other crimes, according to the experimenters. Dr. R. E. House of Ferris, Tex., conducted the experiments before several prison officials and criminal investigators.
Doctor House declared the scopolamin made the subjects incapable of mental inhibition and deprived them of reasoning power so that they were incapable of lying while under its influence. Other faculties, however, remained intact, he said.
Farrar, while under the influence of the drug, confessed that he took part in the attempted robbery of a Chinese merchant in Sacramento, during Chinese was killed.
In which the Farrar was convicted of the man's murder, but, according to his story, told while under the drug's influence, the fatal shot was fired by Roy Carver, an accomplice in the attempted robbery.
Much mystery had surrounded O'Leary's case. His trial was set for June 23rd.  Court testimony and War department records disagreed. He is said to have supplied discrepancies. Those discrepancies were those of the drug. 