The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-20
AyICInOF MORpHIA.
Horrible Paugs He suffers on only
Forty Grains "a Day

On August 2 CHARLES Tyler WAS com
mitted To the New York Tombs by
Justice Wandell from Jefferson Market
Police Court, TOR stealing surgical in
struments snd morphine from phy-
siclans. Being interviewed by re-
potter, he SAID;
rMy right name Is Henry l. Sanford.
I WAS born in the District Of Columbia,
md am twenty-eight years Old. My
mother WAS "a Tyler, OF Virginia, but my
father was a Northern man. Ihey are
both dead. have brothers and sisters,
though they cast ne oil long ago on
account of my habit OF taking morphine,
At twenty graduated from the COLLEGE
of Pharmacy in Chicago. | started out
as ~ physician, bat before long | became
addicted to drinking whiskey. l found
that the habit WAS injurious to my ousl'
q ess: besides, as in all cases, after awhile
the whiskey failed to give me the sat:
lstsction It did at first. 1t was then l
began To- take morphine. That had a
splsrdId affect on me, made me lively
and ambitious, and gave Inc an amount
d happiness | cannot express 10 you.
1t transformed me At once. became
strong and independent. Nothing was
too hard for me to undertake. l spec.
ulated and made lots OF money. AT the
end of two wears my sutierings began.
| had to be constantly under the intlu-
ence OF the drug. | had married and
lost nv wife, and this made 1t necessary
for me to take stronger does until my
mind became impaired | was put int
lunatic asylum in Massachusetts, and
the doctors said that they had never heard
nf any one who took 30 much morphine
| Vas allowed to leave this institution
partially cured. again began taking
the drug, and soon averaged iorty-uV'
trains a day. Ii only had about thirty
Grains now it would make me 50 ilVe!y
could dnace All around the room. The
doctor gives me twenty grams morning
and night, but that's only enough - keep
me alive. take it by injection. Long
ago it failed to have ANY chtGt on me
when taken through the mouth.
Here he barred his left arm aud showed
the reporter the effects OF these injections
They were made by ahypodermic syringe
and from their frequency his arms, from
the shoulder down to the wrist, were one
surface of scars, and the skin was OF q
bIui,b tint. Many of these punctures
were not healed, but Sanford declared ne
WAS totally devoid OF feeling. One might
bore into his flesh with q red hot iron,
ne said, and he would not fee! IT, ana as
proof of this he showed scars on ms legs
.on, ~ large As n silver half-dOllar, and
4 told now he got them. 1t appears that
/ sdy.rsity in its fullest measure came upon
him. He lost his hypodermc syringe
and 50 procured common syringe
TIN, he could not insert into the fest
without first cutting hole. He used tC
take razor and cut cash in his thigh
/ and then with a scissors bore hole Int
the flesh. into which he would insert th'
syringe and inject the morphine. A
the Aeshv parts OF his body which h
could conveniently get Mt have been Gu
and puucturcd over ana over agsln.
During the las. two years, said Stafford
Il have taken over sixty grams OF NOR
phlre a day. | have often taken over
irschm IN one day. One drscnm Q
morphine is equal to mere than 5Ot
grams OF opium
What Is YOUR feeling now when !sup
Piled with the drug
1T Is one OF independence That is asri
hear ~ can express It. No care 10
past or future. Without It my only de
sire IS to Kill myself
He looked about the cell and caL.c,
the reporter to witness there was n
means of killing himself within reach
Il cant even Strangle myself, remarke,
Sanford ION, il wasn't 50 helpless Il
soon be out of the hell I'm in. hsv
no fear OF the next word. There is moth
inc in this for NE. For over two year
| have been dead There is no blood II
me | can eat nothing, and that whicI
would keep lie in me cannot get, an
he fell over on his miserable cot an
s,rhed in heart broken way. Eve
when asleep have no rest. l am con
stantly dreaming of being thrown il
among lot of dead and being compeile
to eat their flesh. know when | wax
mn covered AS | am with cold perspirs
sion mat II Is but dream, but the eteC
of it makes my desire tor morphine
torture" He got up again on his eI
bow and asked the reporter for some &c
bacco. Tue reporter had none to Civ
him. and he tell back again like . dea
man. He said tobacco was the onl
thing he could relish. Morphine take
in the mouth, he said, makes him sick
Being askt d to explain his present pre-
dlcsment. San ford said that when ne los
every means OF making money he so.
everything he had from time Ia time
. secnrn rnnrnhlnn When everything wa