The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-01-07
GIVES BANK OFFICIALS SCARE
Drink-C razed Railroad Man Threatens to
Break Bank Windows-Lays His
Trouble to the Kelley Cure

purpose of writing check.
Having no funds in the bank the
request was denied, whereupon he de-
clared he would go out into the street
and throw rocks thru the plate glass
windows. AS the matter began to be
one of a serious nature Mr.. Gangler
phoned to Deputy Sheriff Debord to
come and take the man in charge.
The officers arrived on the scene few
moments later and placed the man in
the city bastile before he had time to
do any damage. 1t developed later
that the mans actions resulted from a
desire to be arrested, as he had been
drinking hard for the past week and
was afraid he was going insane and
might hurt someone.
McGlinn told reporter for the
Echo that ever since he had taken the
Kelley cure, about two years ago, he
had never been in his right mind and
several times had had fits of dementia,
and thought at the time he could feel
one coming on. McGlinn is a man
of more than ordinary learning and in
telligence and makes a very favorable
impression. AS the conversation pro-
crossed McGlinn also told the writer
that at one time, some ten years ago,
he was conductor on the Great North
ern out of Leavenworth, but since then
has been engaged in railroad work in
various parts of the country. Maginn'S
story of his troubles follows:
Il was asked by a reporter of the
Echo to make a statement regarding
the liquor habit and the recognized
antidote for it, i.e., the Kelley cure"
Ten years ago I was employed as
brakeman and extra conductor on the
Great Northern running out OF this
city, and while I drank to some extent
I was only a very moderate drinker,
and liquor at that time caused no in
furious effect. Some years later l was
employed by the Tudor Iron Works
and again started into the drinking
habit. Friends prevailed upon me to
enter a Kelley institute in the east and
take the treatment. I did so, and am
now going to attempt to describe the
treatment and its after-effect on myself.
On entering the institute I was
placed in the observation room and
closely watched by nurse for SO
hours, when, on the assurance that l
was of normal mind, l was sent to my
room, there to receive the regular
treatment. The treatment consisted
of eight hypodermic injections of drugs
per day, of which chloride Of mercury
was the principal ingredient. In adj
dition to this we received ten doses of
tonic about six or. per dose. God
knows what this tonic contained. |
don't. However, after 38 days I was
pronounced cured and discharged.
Now as to the effect:
I have never had any craving for
drink and do not enjoy the taste of it,
but since I was cured I cannot con-
troll the desire for drink, after l have
taken one drink. The next few drinks
confuse my mind and make me prey
to abnormal ideas and childish fears,
such as being afraid in the dark and
thinking I am incapable OF caring for
myself. Those ideas, combined with
an exaggerated idea of my own mental
ability, make me, to say the least,
very foolish person. So to sum up the
effect in a few words, l would say the
drug cure for the drink habit is really
a crime against the recipient. 1t shat
tiers his mind, impairs his health, de-
prives him of his will power, and
should he again return to drink will
cause him to lose his self-respect and
totally unfit him to hold any position
requiring honesty, self reliance or
force of character.
Il do not know why l write this,
unless it is in hopes some young man
will read it and permit it to act as
warning to him to avoid the curse of
drink to start pith. Drink has gained
for me a broken-down constitution, loss
of the respect of practically all of my
former friends, and the inability to re-
tain a position other than that of
common laborer. Through drink l
have lost home, self-respect, and the
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