The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-24
FOR RADIUM CURE SWINDLE.
DR. N. N. KANE AND TBO OTHERS
INDICTED AND IN THE TONES.
County Medical society. with Woman
Detective. Worked Up the Case ana
say Doctors Got $4,000 From a
Carpenter Radlum wasn't Radium.

Carpenter Radlum wasn't Radium.
DR.. Henry II Kane of 1876 West Thirty
fourth street, formerly president OF the
Road Drivers Association; Dr. William H.
Hale alleged TO Iva his assistant and VIII
liam +. Horton, described as DR.. kane's
secretary, were arrested yesterday at Dr.
Kanes place at 1885 West Thirty-fourth
street, charged with having swindled john
McCullum. a carpenter, of II North hugh
street Mount Vernon. out Of $4,000. Inc
arrests were made by three OF District
Attorney Jerome's men, who were accom-
panied by Lawyer Champe S. Andrews.
counsel for the County Medical Society.
who had worked up the case against the
; three men.
AS a result Of the evidence which MIR.
Andrews has been gathering with the as
sistance of a woman detective lent TO MN
by Commissioner McAdoo Kane. Haze
and Horton were indicted yesterday Tor
grand larceny. When Mr.. Andrews ana
the detectives reached the place yesterday
DR.. Kane had thirty-four men patients
Whiting to see him The prisoners were
taken to the Tombs and will be- arraigned
before Judge Mcmahon this morning
Mr. Andrews. for the County Medical
Society. secured from Justice heogh IN
White Plains yesterday an injunction re-
strainng any banks holding deposits OF
the men from paying out any money. This
was served on three banks, in one OF which,
Mr.. Andrews said, Kane has $4,000
A member Of the County Medical Society
heard by accident that Or. Kane had been
treating McCullurn with radium at high
price. and was doing land office radium
business, and McCullum was hunted up Nc
Cullum. MIR. Andrews said last night, had
been sent TO DR.. Kane in November
1908 by the medical examiner of life IN
surance company. He had lust lost his
wife and decided to take out life insurance
for the benefit Of bis little boy; The hte
Insurance. man told him he had a certain
disease and sent him to Or. Kane DIT
Kane performed an operation for which
he charged 500 and for subsequent treat
ment told McCullum he would have to pay
SIS week.
After McCul,m had paid this for some
months Kane. he says. told him that his
case was difficult and grave and that he
would have TO have n consultation Kane
called in Hale as consulting physician.
They told him, be says. that radium would
have to be used If his life was TO be saved.
Radlun they said, was very costly. but
they didn't think that 1t was fair to make
any profit and would supply II at cost price.
They showed McCullum a test tube in which
they said was the radium necessary Tor ms
case, costing about $4,000.
McCuilum, according TO his story, gave
the doctors in few weeks $50, every
cent he had s-lVed in eighteen years. In
return. he said he got the radium treat
ment and also the X-ray treatment, which
consisted of l)r. Kane and Dr. Hale Hash
ing red, blue and green lights on him.
DR., Kane McCullum says, told him that
his treatment had cost $1,000 and repre-
sented that McCullum stu owed him seV-
eral thousand dollars. II was lust about
this time that the County Medical Society
got hold of the case
Mr. Andrews got McCulum to keep up
his visits and IN the meantime he got
the woman detective from Commissioner
who had taken an interest in MCCullum
and his SON. DR.. Hale. 1t l. alleged. adj
United to her that McCullum had paid Dr.
Kane and himself $4,000. showed her the
radium tube and said that II had cost DR..
Kane si2 600, and that McCullum still owed
them 50 900 The wealthy widow agreed
then to pay Mccullum' balance afterJan
After these negotiations the woman
went to Lakewood and etterward wrote
from there to Or. Kane that she had he
come Interested IN his radium treatment
and would like to try it herself. She got
whole lot of letters then explaining ali
about II and what IT would cost. These
letters were part Of the evidence before
the Grand Jury. i he radluiu tube given
to McCullum was cent 70 the Lederle labor
atory and its contents Analysed, 1t was
found, MIR. Andrews says, 10 contain GIN
feng strychnine and "A few other drugs
found in most jonics. There wasn't any
radium, according % DR. 1ederle's affidavit.
Mr.. Andrews laid the results OF his m
veStigationS before the District Attorney,
and the Indictments werp the result.
When the detectives raided the place
yesterday they found several radium tubes
which they seized There was also copies
of circular Or. Kane was sending out
which told of a wonderful life giving herb
he had found
THE arrest Of DR.. Kane, said Mr.. AM
drews last night alta meeting of the County
Medical Society. to which he had related
the above narrative, puts an end to one
of the worst swlndles we have ever met
with Nothing like II was ever attempted
before We are after another .'octor who
was in with min, and already have many
cases against this man, showing that young
men and old men 10y the score have been
swindled ont of Sums ranging from 500
TO 300. If there was nothing the matter
with a patient, these men used nitrate OF
silver, or some other agent 70 produce some
thing to convince patient that he had
disease that was close TO nCurablc and thet
only radium al $4,000 an ounce in some
cases could work the necessary cure These
men are practising under state licenses,
and il is time the business was stopped.
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