The Detroit times., 1912-05-24
PROF" SlMUE[S PLEADS
NOT GUILTY AND GAINS
LIBERTY on $1,000 BAIL
Still Claims Virtue For Salt and
Sugar Mixture; Says He'll
Continue Business
OFFICE NEARLY DESERTED
Big Staff Discharged Following
Raid - Prosecutor Seizes
Stack of Correspondence

Prof" II. Samuels, arrested. We'd
+ resday, following raid OF his office
and Laboratory" in the Dodge build
Ing, Nos. 264-270 Jefferson-ave., by
4 Prosecutor Hugh Shepherd. Special
+ Ofhcer l. J. Comm and number OF
other officials. was arraigned before
Jnsiice Stein, Thursday morning, on
charge OF practicing medicine with
out a license. Through his attorney,
George b. Yerkes, he pleaded not
guilty, and his examination was fixed
for Tuesday morning, May 2S. at 9
o'clock; bail, $1,000, one surety. The
bond was furnished by David Neder-
lander, son of Joseph Nederlander,
Who has appeared as bondsman for a
number OF people In the police and
recorders courts.
The professor" was released from
his cell in the central police station,
late Wednesday night, by Justice
Stein, on a $1,000 bond.
Assistant Prosecutor Harry Keidan
asked Justice Stein to make the bail
$1,000, two sureties, declaring that
the professor" has no fixed place OF
residence.
HE is living in the Pontchartrain.
paying $500 a MONTH" said Mr. Kei.
dan to the court. and has been n.y.
I Ing about, the country. The prosecu-
tors ONCE has had some expensive
experience with such cases, and we
think the court ought to protect the
county against any possible loss In
this instance"
"Mr. Samuels has not been flying
about the country" interposed Mr..
Yerkes, with some indignation, and
he has come TO Detroit to stay"
well, I repeat that he has no fixed
place OF residence" said Mr.. Keidan.
''and. moreover, his manager says
that Samuels was driven out OF
Wichita, Kan"
HE wasn't driven out OF Wichita,
and well prove it." retorted Mr..
Yerkes.
Justice Stein didn't seem TO think
that there was much danger OF the
professor" disappearing, and allowed
bail to stand at the original figure.
The ''professor's' office and labor
atory" presented a deserted appear
ance, Thursday morning, when Prose-
cutor Shepherd, accompanied by q.
number OF other officials, paid visit
Tor the purpose OF gathering evidence.
Only two girls were at work, both
sealing up envelopes. The rs stenos-
raphers who were working industri-
ously at their typewriters, Wednesday,
az the time Of the raid, were paid on
soon after coming to work. Thursday,
and had gone before the prosecutor
arrived. Manager Rhoades and Myren
Lazarus, nephew of the professor"
who has charge OF the mixing" room,
we're on hand. apparently winding up
Affairs. The prosecutor invaded the
professors" "sanctum sanctorum,"
the mixing" room, where the cure
air Is prepared, and picked up a bot
tie Of medicine. He also examined
the bins containing the sugar and
ealt. which are said to be the chief
ingredients In the mixture. Water.
nccording to DR.. J. E. Clark's analysis,
Il the only other element in the prep
aration.
The professor" has a fve-year
lease on the premises and he told
The Times, Thursday morning, that
nc would continue his ONCE after the
disposal OF his case. He was con-
yinced that the prosecution would
fell through.
II have done nothing to warrant
my arrest" he said, smiling. 81 have
been arrested before under similar
circumstances. and nothing came of