The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-11-23
US. RAID z CITIES:
ARREST rs QuAcks.
ARRESTS MADE ON CHARGE o.
MlSUsiNG MAll-MANY
PROMINENT PERSONS,
sLEUTH WORK MONTHS
Prosecution for Alleged Violation q
Penal Code Most Extensive Ever
Undertake~-ktinetyA A.
ready Indicted.


direction OF Postmaster General Hitch.
cock. postotiice inspectors and United
States marshals in seventy-tvo lead.
ing cities of the country began prac.
tica1ly simultaneous raids for the ar.
rest of 173 persons charged with using
the mails to promote criminal medical
practices or the sale OF drugs and in
struments used for criminal purposes.
Most Cities Interested.
The number Of arrests to BE- made
In the respective sites follows:
New York. two: Buffalo. three:
Pittsburg, seven; indianapolis, five;
Chicago. nine; ST. Paul, five: Fort
Worth. four; st. Louis. three; Omaha,
four: Oklahoma City. five: Portland,
Ore. nine: Denver. five: Seattle,
eight; Spokane. five; San Francisco.
seven; Oakland. Cal. eight; Los An
geles. three: San Jose. three; Mobile,
three; Marietta, Ohio, three; Dallas.
three.
Two each In Albany, Washington.
Memphis. Birmingham. Cleveland,
Steubenville, Ohio; Duluth. Winona,
Mimi: San Antonio. Houston. New
Orleans. Kansas City. Topeka. Ala.
media. Cal.
One each in Atlanta. Cincinnati. To-
!edo, Minneapolis, Galveston, Salt
Lake City, Ithaca and Elmira. N. Y:
east Orange, NJ j.; Lancaster and
Pine Bank, Pn.; Cumberland, Md:
Charleston and Columbia. S. c.; Jack.
sonvilla. Fla: Columbus. Springfield.
Mt. Vernon. Dayton and Convoy,
Ohio: Fort Wayne and Terre Haute.
Ind; Peoria, H.; Kalamazoo and Iron
River. Mich; Holden, Mo-: Muskogee,
Okla: Wichita, Kans.; Council Bluffs,
Ia; BclIingham. Crescent and Tacoma,
Wash; Sacramento. Petaluma. Fresno
and Glendale. Cal
The arrests are made for misuse Of
the mails, each case being based on
the use Of the mails to solicit business
or dispose of wares. This concerted
official action covered the United
States from the Atlantic to the Pa.
cific and from tho lakes to the gulf.
Many of the persons to he arrest cd
are prominent. commercially and go
are leading physicians; others are
rich and influential business men; yet
others are men who live by their wits
and are comparatively little known
without their own small coterie OF
associates; and one is a Chinaman
who is alleged to have practiced his
calling upon women of his own race
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society.
Violation Of Penal Code Alleged.
All of the arrests are to be made for
alleged violations of section 2l1 OF
the penal code of the United States
which bars from the mails any vile or
obscene matter whether sealed or un-
sealed; any advertisement letter or
circular proposing or suggesting
criminal PRACTICES; or any packet con.
tanning any substance, drug or thing
intended TO be nsed for immoral or
unlawful pRaposes.
Chief Inspector Robert s. Sharp Of
the postoffice department and many at
his force Of 800 inspectors have been
working on the cases for many
months. The development Of tho
plans which just eliminated is the
most extensive raid in the history Of
any department Of the government.
Approximately ninety of the per
sons arrested already have been In.
dicted by United States grand juries
in various parts of the country.
and the cases of the others will b~
presented to grand juries now sitting
% rapidly as may be feasible.
"pMl Doctsss.
Approximately 20 per cent of thoso
arrested are so-ca|ied pill docto7s"-
mon who advertise their practice by
correspondence or otherwtse-anA
send to their patiea,ts. either BY mail
or by express, various compounds in
the form Of pills or powders. Analysts
Of these compounds by the govern
ment authorities is said to have dis
closed that some of them are wholly
fnnocuous, while other are dangerous
poisons. Under another section of the
penal code the sending of poisons
through the mails is expressly forbid
den.