New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-23
FIND WOMEN DRUG
ADDICTS FAMISHED
Police Take Teacher and
Sister from Court to
Hospital.

Emma Clark, twenty-five years old.
former school teacher. and her sister,
Hannah Clark, thirty-One years old.
were found Monday suffering from the
effects Of opium at their home. So 2d
ST.. Brooklyn. Yesterday. after they
had been taken to the Flatbush court,
Magistrate Dodd ordered their removal
TO Kings County Hospital
For several years Hannah suffered
from nervous trouble. and on the rec
ommendation Of physician took
opium in small quantities. She and her
sister became addicted to the drug
Emma. through being frequently late
at school. lost her position.
Fearing that the women had commit
ted suicide or were starving. neighbOrs
notified the police. Detective Valentine
Bach found the two lying on a bed III
stupor and half famished. There
were two hypOdermic syringes and a
quantity Of opium in the room.
When taken 70 court yesterday the
women collapsed An effort is being
made by the police to learn from what
source the opium was obtained.
Margaret Schultz. widow. was tried
yesterday before a jury in the United
States District Court in Manhattan OH
a charge Of manufacturing smoking
opium in her apartments. 81 East 4th
ST. The jury returned a sealed verdict.
Florence Meyers. tlfty-One years old,
Of - West l0Sth St, was held in $1,000
bail By Magistrate Murphy. in the
West Side Court, for having morphine
and cocaine in her apartments. She was
suffering from the lack of the mar
cotics when arraigned
Mrs. Mary Marion, widow. forty
one years old, Of 2S2 West ll5th st,
was in the Harlem court yesterday for
selling cocaine to children. She was
held in $1,000 bail for examination to-
morrow.
Richard Niguria. twenty eight years
old; Wilbert Grant. a waiter; Abraham
Silverberg. typesetter. and Morris Gil
bert. A clerk. of 5S1 Tenth av.. we're
sentenced 20 the penitentiary yesterday
in the Court of Special Session for
vending heroin and cocaine.
Notwithstanding the recent law
against its sale bichloride of mercury
is being sold by some druggists in
q solution. DR.. Charles Frederick Pabst
yesterday told Health Commissioner
Goldwater
Reputable pharmacists arc mott en-
dcavorinC 20 cyade the law by this
lief Of the Health Commissioner that
many OF the druggists of the city have
not vet been acquainted with the law
respecting the sale Of bichloride Of
mercury.
4 raid on the apartments Of Mary
French. Il West 98th st., last night. re-
suited in the arrest Of three women and
ono man and the discovery Of $500
worth of heroin and cocaine. The man
arrested Raymond Seymour. Of 81
West 10th St. is said by the police to
have been active in drug distributing
recently and is charged with having is
sued prescription for drugs under the
name Of Dr.. Reed. Such prescriptions
we're found recently in another raid.
Mary Trenck. ono Of the women, has
been tried three times on charges Of
hs..ug drugs in her possession, but
cacI time has received suspended
.cutclcc because Of her age, sixty-flvc
years. She lives at Il West 98th st
The others arrested were Mary Morris,
s. west 10th St, and Mary French,
the owner Of the apartment