St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-25
MORPHINE VICTIM.
Harry Hayward Said to Be
a Slave to the
Drug.
DR.. BURTON THROPE's IDEA.
Thinks the Accused Man
Braced Up On Morphine
Last Thursday
THE TALK OF IMPEACHMENT
State May Make 1t Pleasant
for Some Of ErWin'S Wit
neSSeS.

These words were uttered by DR..
Burton Thrope, of the New York col
lege of physicians and surgeons, at
the Hayward trial last Thursday
afternoon. 1t was just at that point
in Hayward's testimony when he
was giving an account of his move
ments about the Ozark flats on the
night of the homicide, and when, as
every one remembers who was there,
he appeared nervous and apprehens-
i've. At that time those who were
watching Harry Hayward closely
saw him put his left hand to his
mouth, and, Immediately after, swal-
low something. According to DR..
Thrope, Hayward took some NOR
phine pills, and the revulsion which
showed in his face the doctor attrib-
utes to Hayward's unfamiliarity
with the practice of taking the drug
into his stomach.
DR.. Thrope is one Of the best Spe
cialists in this country in cases of
nervous debility induced by eXces-
sive use of alcoholic StimulantS or
deadly drugs like morphine, and he
is as positive that Harry Hayward
is a slave to the morphine habit as
he is that he is alive.
DR. Thrope'S observation was made
to medical friend who was also in
attendance at the trial, and both
gentlemen had been studying Hay
ward all day. The doctors remark
was not made for publication, but
upon being pressed by GLOBE rep
resentative he consented to give his
reasons for believing Hayward a
"fiend"
81 have no DESIRE" said DR.. Thrope
at the West hotel last evening, ito
bait the interest of vulgar minds,
but the man who testified in his own
behalf last Friday is without doubt
a confirmed morphine eater Or,
speaking more accurately, morphine
taker. He takes it hypodermically
and that is why he made such wry
face when he gulped it down on the
stand. Not that the drug in itself
is so very repugnant to the taste, but,
taken into the stomach, it invariably
produces a fearful sickness for a
time
This is a new theory, doctor, how
can you be certain Of your conclu-
sions?" was asked.
1.-THE mans whole attitude, appear
ance and general manner. Did you
notice that peculiar twitching, or
rather opening and rolling of the
eyes, with swift, roundabout look ?
| If you have ever seen a man on the
verge of delirium tremens you must
have been struck by the peculiarly
wild expression of his eyes, and the
dilating and sudden contraction Of
their muscles. In the case Of Hay
| ward these. symptoms are not so
| strongly marked, for I do not sup
pose allows the drug to die out
| in him. Last Friday the strain upon
him was very severe, and he evil
IDENTIFY did not take enough during
| his noon hour to last him through
| the session.
Then the color of his face is a
good indication. To the practiced
eye the pink and white of his face
is not the glow Of health. 1t comes
from morphine poisoning and of hav-
ing his nerves strung up to the high
est pitch.
81 should say Hayward is taking
something like forty grains of the
drug every day. How does he man
age to do it? Why, don't you know
that morphine f1ends are the most
cunning persons in the world. Their
ingenuity is astonishing where their
life sustenance is concerned 1t is
almost impossible to catch them. [
| don't know how he gets it, Or from
whom. That is not the question. He
has it, uses it and shows it very
plainly, as probably half of the doc
tors in the city know who have
watched him during the trial.
What effect would the drug have
| on person of Hayward's tempera-
ment in impelling him to commit a
crime?'
"Oh, the subject is so interlinked
with other vital considerations that
it is impossible to say. In general
way morphine, like whisky, deadens
the sensibilities, moral as we'll as
physical The habitual user of it
lives in an ideal world peopled with
a different race of human beings
than the everyday men and women
that we know. They are essentially
dreamerS. [ can understand how a
man, infatuated with a vice, such as
gambling, for instance, might, under
the influence of morphine, cocaine or
opium, conceive the most heartless
and cold-blooded murder and exc
cute it without really being a blood
thirsty man at heart. This may
sound absurd, but observe what
| crimes are committed under the in
| fiuence Of drink. The difference in
| the action of the two powerful dis
turbers of the human reason is this:
! Whisky or alcohol is more OBJ
| viOuSly active. A drunken man reels.
| talks much and discovers himself.
| The morphine man rarely shows his
| intOXicatiOn. Now there is a su-
! preme point in drunkenness. A few
moments when the intoxicated man
is gloriourly happy. Not boisterous-
| ly so, but serenely calm and radiant
| ly happy. But this lasts but few
moments. have been told by many
morphine patients, who were inebri-
ates before they acquired the NOR
phine habit, that the drug keeps
them all the time where the whisky
kept them but a few moments. A
mind happy and restful from NOR
phine, without a natural and suffi-
Gent reason for happiness and good
feeling, will pirouette about an in
visible point that is neither thought
nor material phenomenon.
"One Of the strangest things about
the drug is that it makes its victims
miserable towards. If Hayward is TAX
| ing hypodermic injections every few
! hours, as 1 firmly believe he is, he is