The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-13
FULL OF COCAINE.
clarence Young. a Druggist, Arrested /
Says It's Mistake.


On information sworn to by Robert l..
MOTIFS, ecretary of the State Temper
ence union a warrant was issued yes
terday afternoon by Judge Simon of the
city court for the arrest of Clarence
foung, the druggist with his place OF
business at No. sol Kansas avenue, on
the charge of violating the pure drug
law in the sale of headache powders
which were not properly labeled as to
their ingredients and which contained
cocaine.
Mr.. Young was arraigned in the court
later in the afternoon and was admit
ted to bail in the sum of $500. l. >:
Curtis went on his bond and his trial
was sent for the city court on November
There are four counts in the infor-
nation filed against Young and when
was prepared by j. J. Schenck. the
by Mr.. Norris. The penalty provided
by law in case Mr.. Young Is convicted
is fine of not more than SoO or I'M
prisonment for not more than one year
In jail, or a fine and imprisonment Ior
each count.
In the information 1t is charged that
Young has been selling an article, OF
drug, which is adulteratnd and mis-
branded 1t is known as DR.. FLOYD
Headache powders and is purported 10
be manufactured by the DR.. Fioyo
Chemical company of st. Louis. Inc
first count charges that this drug Wnlcn
has been misbranded and aouiterdleu,
is in fact cocaine hydrochloride, ana
that the package containing the orug
fails to bear a statement on the lapeI
of the quantity of cocaine contained III
1t.
The second count is that Young mas
been selling these same powders when
also contain acetanilid without state
ment to that effect appearing on the ia
bel. The third o count 1uitbo,t aG Isbeis
ing it as such and the fourth charges
Mr.. Young with failing to see tnat eaSn
powder containing acetanllld pore the
name of that drug.
1t has taken a couple of weeks TO
work up this case against Young. 1t
seems that Roy Dutton, trusty at the
county Jail, who IS allowed to go on err
rands for prisoners and for the 1alIers
has been supplying some OF the nstb pr t5ese
powders. Some of them were found on
him one day when he returned a1ter
going on q purported errano Ior soLnS
tobacco. Dutton has refused 70 l9 5ii
where he bought these powders. But IN
some way their purchase mas oeen
placed at Mr.. Young's door.
There is certainly some mistake
said Mr. Young, who was at the court
house today, in charging me with the
sale of these powders. 1 have never
handIad any headache powders lapeleo
DR. F1oyd's Headache POWDERS ano
did not know that there was sucn
rowder until a week or ten days ago
when a stranger came into the store
and asked for one of them. l told MIN
that did not have them. since tnst
time there nave been three or four otn-
er strangers in the store asking for the
same sort of a powder and l have hao
to saw the same thing to them,
namely I never had such a powder IN
my store. I can prove from the WnoIe
saIa druprists through whom I buy my
drugs and proprietary medicines that
nave never purchased such powder
from them. Furthermore do not man
ufacture a headache poWder mysehl as
soY1,a druggists do and all the headache
powders I have for sale are properly
labelled as to their contents and none
of them contain drugs that are not
permitted by law, to the pest oE my
knowledge"