New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-08

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laying himself open TO punishment. IL
questioned by the police he could say
that he had thrown the other nine hun
dred ounces in the East River or could
offer any other excuse which the police
would be forced TO accept. unless they
had legal evidence 10 the contrary.
The new law, the judge said, would
require this druggist to account for
every ounce sold to him by his whole
saler or jobber, and the burden Of
proof would rest upon him to show
where it went. II he was unable to do
so to the satisfaction Of the court ne
would be adjudged guilty Of illegal
selling without further evidence.
Father Farrell explained yesterday
to reporter for The Tribune how i'm.
! possible 1t was to keep the deadly
coke out of the hands of school chill
dren under the present Law, even
though they were administered with
reasonable vigor. When he drove the
! pedlers who sold cigarettes to the chill
! dren out of his district in Williamsburg
a few years ago he thought that he had
accomplished a good work. About
year later he found that the children
had been taught 10 sniff the white
STUFF and that they were buying it in
| Cit ,f
Priest Catches q "sniffer."
| Only day before yesterday" said the
priest, Il ran across a young fellow IN
the street whom Immediately sus
pected of being a user Of the drug be-
cause of his excessive use Of a handker-
chief. He had his hand in his pocket
when ! came along. and, thinking that
he might have some immoral literature.
or something of the kind | asked him
| to let me sec what he had. He re-
fused. Putting my hand In his pocket
| drew out a pillbox of cocaine.
Every effort to make him tell where
he got ii failed, as usual, so ! took him
around TO his parents. and between us
VIC made him confess that he had OBJ
tanned ii from street pedlcr. These
! pedlers sell II under the guise OF candy
I'm hollow pencils-in fact, in any dis
street pedlers who are the curse of our
school districts. They are fiends in
carnate. No punishment is too awful
for them. If they confined their de-
they would be bad enough, but after
grating the habit ninnocent girls Of
thirteen and fourteen years OF age they
use IT to lure them away to worse deg
radiation and crime
Three convictions OF white slavers"
have been obtained recently in Will
iamsburg through the vigilance of
Father Farrell. and he has been the
means Of sending eleven cocaine sellers
to the island within the last year The
priest has a vigilance committee OF
young men similar 20 that Of the Rev.
James F. Flynn. pastor OF the Church
Of our Lady If the Presentation. st.
Marks avenue and Eastern Parkway,
described in Fridays Tribune.
Boys Help in Good Work.
These youths are pledged 10 bring
in word OF every case of drug selling
or using of which they become aware.
Father Farrell gives the former in
formation to the police and turns the
users over to DR.. Walter Hurley. a
Williamsburg physician. who treats
such cases as he can reach. When the
hold of the habit is loosened by the
treatment the patients are induced TO
tell where they procured the drug. and
vigorous measures arc Immediately
taken TO obtain an arrest and oonvic-
ton.
So far Father Farrell has not failed
Of conviction In any case he has laid
before the authorities. Not only does
he visit the schools and hospitals in
his neighborhOod. but whenever he finds
a schoolboy addicted to the use OF
narcotic, he takes him before his class
and makes an example of him, kindly
but firmly.
Il am brought into daily contact with
little victims OF the drug" the priest
said yesterday. land oh. how pitiable
they arc--the boys still In their teens
and the girls in short dresses. who.
looking like half wtted children with
dulled brains. are either brought or
come voluntarily TO the hospitals for
treatment.
THANK God we have q fearless paper
like The New-York Tribune that can
find space and time to spread through
this great community warning against
this fearful civilian OWL more disss-
trous than the plague, for the plague
would be fought by the worlds great.
est physicians and lsymen, but this
evil, which affects children. grown. ups
and aged, finds only few to raise their
voices and use their might against IT,"
Father Farrell is working in conjunc-
ton with Lieutenant Mcdonald who
has been specially assigned by Deputy
Commissioner Walsh. Of Brooklyn, to
take charge OF the prosecution of CO.
caine cases in that borough. Lieu
tenant Mcdonald also receives the help
of Eater Flynn, whose vigilance COM