New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-23
ARRESTS BARE DRUG
SALE TO CHILDREN
Two Brooklyn Men Held
After Cocaine Haul in
Police Raid.
PLANS UNDER WAY
TO CRUSH MENACE
RI. c. Barber Tells How Druggists
Evade Law and of Remedy
for Growing Evil.

Morris seigel of 30 1919 Boerum
street. and George Schaefer, formerly
living at 40. lOe Walton street, Will
iamsburg, were held in $1,000 bail each
by Magistrate Dodd in the Manhattan
avenue court for having heroin and
other drugs in their possession. Detec-
tives Carroll and Shea, who arrested the
men. said that the two had an extensive
distributing station for heroin and CO.
caine
According to the police, Seigel former
" had a candy store al No. 1879 Boerum
street which was a centre for drugs as
was the house at No 100 Walton street
The sale Of heroin was conducted 50
openly that Captain Buchanan, of the
Clymer street station, seized several
hundred boxes containing the drug at
the house several months ago.
The police of the Stagg street station
learned that the same men had another
distributing station and that the drug
was being sold 10 school children. Sci
gels store was located on Saturday.
where he ard Schaefer were arrested. A
After the arrests I'm the drug raid in
Brooklyn. Howard Clark Barber super
intendent of the Society for the Prevention
Of Crime, issued the following statement:
THE crooked drug traffic cannot be
stopped by any halfway measures and
no law governing the sale and use Of
opium, morphine and heroin can be too
drastic. | believe that an adequate drug
law Is more important night now than all
the commotion about the Mayors police
iii.
The District Attorney in Special Ses-
sions. with great difficulty. succeeded in
convicting Il drug clerk this week of sell
ing heroin without a poison label as re-
CURED by Section 1743 Of the penal law.
II have just discovered that during the
last few days that same drug store on
Eighth avenue has sold heroin as before,
and the heroin that was purchased Is now
In my possession. This IS the way IT was
done:
1.-The law requires a druggist TO put a
! label on the bottle, box, vessel or pack
age containing poisOns. Instead Of put
ting the purchase into a bottle. box,
vessel or package ne put the tablets
| loose into the palm OF the purchaser s
hand. who walked out with them. There
being. therefore. no bottle, box, vessel or
package upon which to put the poison
label he will claim that the sale does not
come within the statute.
This is important now because there
are two bills pending in the Legislature.
! Tho Frawley bill amends Section l7i3 by
inserting other drugs and poisons and
| providing for mere possession of them,
but in the amended law the old reference
TO bottle. box, vessel or package has
been left without change. and in this
particular respect the law will be no
stronger than II was before.
Il am absolutely in favor Of passing the
Frawley law. because it Will reach a
great many cases. but there is another
bill. introduced by Senator Boylan.
which prescrlbes conditions under which
those drugs can be legitimately handled
and forbids any possession OF them other
wise. This bill, I am informed, has been
made 10 conform generally 10 the sug-
gesuons OF the medical societies and le-
climate drug trade.
Some Illicit dealers will have the nerve
20 sell this stun with the correct label on
II, and under those circumstances the
| Frawley amendment viii not reach them
as 10 viii the others.
with the many thousands OF boys and
F, girls who have already become slaves 10
J these atrocious habits staring AZ US with
hollow eyes from the prisons and criminal
resorts. It IS no time 70 trihe with men
| who are opposing this legislation on tine
grounds OF their mere convenience