Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-12-07
FRISCO IS AFTER
ILLEGAL SELLERS
OF DRUGS
Crusade Against Dispensers Of
Morphine and Other 0piates
Disoloses Extensive Opera.
tons.

san Francisco, Callf, Dec. 7.--Con-
fessiOns gained ni tie city prison by
inspectors Suthorland, Brown aud
Charmak from Aussans Syverson, a
convicted morphlno and cocaine ven-
der. implicate Clayton y. Richards. who
poses ~ e wholcsale druggist az 3aS
clay street, IN one Of the largest Illicit
dealers IN inorphins and cosainc In
this country. according To the state
board OF pharmacy officials. Evidence
has been secured. said Attorney Tho
mas O'COnnor yesterday. showing that
richards has for three years been
carrying on an annual traffic OF tso,-
U0e in the poison aud annually dis
rosed ~ more Than third 81 ton
ui the drug. The largest rrpuisD Die
drug store syndicatc In the city sells
about tlrc. ouEccs a year.
Armed with a search warrant yes
torday morning, Inspectors Suthcr-
land and Charmak broke into Rich
urds' store and secured his records
and letters bearing on the traffic. which
show his methods. The letters reveal
the fact that he secured his enormous
supply Of morphine and cocaine from
a German manufacturing Arm. tho
largest IN the world Richards II In
Reno. according To his attorney. Will
liam Deal. and will surrender himself
tomorrow morning,
The pharmacy board has secured
evidence thar Ms. Rose Mentor se-
cured her drugs from Richards.
Distributed from Reno.
Richards sent the morphine and
cocaine TO Reno, and from there Il
wac sent TO those who ordered 4, here
lnclosing an addressed package Ia the
person who ordered Il. ne would ex-
press the drug In another package to
the Flanagan Draying company Of
Reno. There Flanagan would tear OF
the outer wrapper aud ship the pack
age back by express TO the purchaser
The packages received by the pur-
chaser bore the name OF the Noun
tain Drug Company OF Reno. New"
The Mountain Drug company OF RE-
NO exists only ca paper and its In
corpOrators are clayton Richards. s9S
shares. Miss ethel Livecy, an ompioye
Of the California Canneries. one share.
end Mrs. NJ. Il. Quiglcy. sister oG Rich
ards. one share. A. far az tbs In
spectors OF the pharmacy board have
Investigated. theipompany was blind.
aud no direct Evidence has been Sc
cured showing that either woman
handled any OF the drugs.
syycrson In his confession told the
inspectors that he had been supplied
BY Richards aud acted az his agent
He told Of how Richords used 10 write
the names 81 the persons who bought
the drugs. on the inner package, and
then seal Il up in the outer wrapper to
Flenagan in Reno. Inspector Brown
secured statement from Flanagan
admitting the handling OF the packages
bu, Flanagan declared he was getting
his pay. thought something was wrong
but never took the trouble 20 ind out
what tho Packages contained. a. long
as HIS pay was regular"
Syverson's confession also dragged
Fred schultz. an elevator COY In thu
Rothschild building. sS5 .Geary street
into the drng net. syvorson said that
Richards had arranged with schultz
to cache syverson's drugs In cabinet
IN tho basement OF the building. while
Schultz wcs x, ting commission on
the drug for &ecping u. and Syvors0n
turned the money over Ia him, and
Schultz brought Il 10 Richards. schultz
was arrested and Released on bail.
Rcgar,I,d M Important,
The pharmacy board officials regard
the discovery % Richards work AZ the
most important development In the
crusade against the sale OF Illicit
drugs. According TO Attorney o'c0n-
nor. Richards har bcen dispensing Of
Tho drug throushout IN state
Among the records Of Richards
seized IN the raid was a register hook.
Attorney pronnor aaid that although
entries had been made. all were in the
rnme handwriting aud the appearance
Of the ink Indicated that they had
been made an AZ once. O'connor as
serts tlat richards attempted to
shield himself from the law by making
entries after the crusade was institut-
cd here.
In tho police court yesterday before
Judge shortnll there were eleven con.
Nletions as a result Of the big raid nf
last week. -Four or those convicted
We're white men and seven were Chi
nese In five ~ the cases fines were
paid and the remaining six were sent
To the county fail on afiy-day sen
fences All the pipes and parapher-
malta were conaRcated. MANI OF the
other cases were continued until to-
morrow morning.
! The cases against John Edwards
were continued until December ttth
Tor Jury trial on nve counts Mrs.
Mentors case and the Gleason case