The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-10-28
RUINED BY COCAINE
SAD FATE OF A Man AND HIS
Wife.
BHghting Effects of the Drug Vivid.
ly illustrated in the Case Of Two
Young People.
Young People,

The blgltDg powers OF cocaine
says The News and Courier. Ter'
Yividly demonstrated when Loui
Malone and his wife. Rosa, q. younE
white couple, were arrested an
/ hailed before Magistrate O'Shaugh
nessy's Court on warrant perferr
ed against them by Mr. Elias S. Win
gate, charging them with maliciou:
mischief in cutting up and otherwise
demolishing an old schooner belong
ing to him, lying at Potter's wharf
IN which he aIlowed them to live
through compassion excited by thei-
destitute and desperate condition.
Both persons appeared before the
magistrate in an almost starving
condition. clothing il rags. neither
of them weighing over Is pounds
and frankly attributed their condi:-
ion to the use Of the devastating
drug. Their wretched and skeleton
like appearance excited so much ply
in the breast Of the prosecutor dur
ing the course of the trial that b :.
suddenly resolved to dismiss the
charges against the two and prayei
the Court te turn the prisoners loose.
Malone has since been, arrested ''y
the police on q charge OF vagrancy
and sentenced to a fne Of SIS or 70
ten days in the County Jail.
Before becoming addicted to the
use Of cocaine Malone, who was born
in this city, is said to have been a
hrst-class arpenter, but the evil In
huence of the drug soon sapped mis-
vital powers. and this is the more
pitiful because of the fact that ne
married, and through his influence
bis young wife also became addicted
to its use. About year ago the
couple came here to live, but wet
from bad to worse, and 1t eventually
came about that the two had no place
to call home.
After wandering about for sesera.
months they at length picked out the
old dismantled schooner Maggie.
moored at Potter's wharf. as place
of residence. The owner, Ar. Elias
S. Wingate, hearing the deplo7aoie
story, was loath to eject them from
the sorry shelter as long as they
behaved themselves, but the two
soon made themselves Objectionable
by tearing and cutting of the wood
work Of the vessel to use IS fuel
with which to keep warm on cold
nights. Mr.. Wingate personally triei
to induce them to leave, but had to
resort to the law, as the Malonec
positively refused to leave peaceably
Constable William r. Way states
that the condition of.the two cocaine
fends in their home" was almost
unbelieveably bad They slept in a
place barely eighteen inches high IN
the hold, because the other parts o.
the vessel were too uncomfortab!y
cold for them in their drugged con
dition. The officer had hard work to
find out this sleeping room, but was
finally attracted By the grosns and
means of the woman, WI ohad just
previously taken stiff dose of the
poison and was under its influence
The deck Of the schooner was ce-
scribed as being literally covered
by the little white pill boxes which
had once contained the cocaine.
Offers of help were made to the
Malones by Magistrate o'shaughnes-
81 and several other people present
at the trial, with view Of relieving
their destitute condition, but these
kind offers were bruskly brushed
aside by the man, who stated tha;
they were too far gone already in
their indulgence of cocaine to care
for assistance. When Louis was ar
rested by the police en- a charge oi
vagrancy Friday afternoon he gave
the officers a terrible fight for the
possession of the cocaine syringe and
tuI TX.
San. Army officers found out
the con. ION OF the couple. and
were especially excited to pity
through Rosa's ragged and wretched
appearance. The woman was taken
to the Salvation Army home and
there cared for before it was decided
to send her to her home IN Btrn-
ingham, Ala, but Rosa stayed there
only few short weeks and then
again followed the fortunes of he'
husband. In an uncommonly short
space OF time she was again In the
same deplorable condition in Thici
she was found by the Salvation Army
officers. The skin Of both unfortn
| mates has turned deep Tello"
! through the excessive use OF the
drug.
Warning TO MILLINERS.