New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-10
Given Liberty to Help Cru
SADIE, Man Captures
Alleged Vendors.
MOTHER ACCUSED OF
USING GIRL AS AID
DR.. Baxter Called Traitor and
Sentenced-ViCtim Advises
Chair to Cure Habit.

County Judge Fawcett. o. Brooklyn,
yesterday freed drug victim on sus-
pended sentence. on the mans promise
to help the police in the crusade
against the dealers in habit-forming
drugs. Within a few hours the man
caused the arrest of doctors wife
and a druggist.
Armed with two marked 81 bills, he
went to the Office of Dr. Harry Richter,
at 290 Pulaski ST., Brooklyn. The doc
ter was out, but his wife, Mrs. Rose
Richter, it is alleged, took the marked
bills and, giving her eleven-year- old
daughter. Sadie. one Of them, sent her
to Israel Bass's drug store, at 367
South Sd st.
Detectives Fiaschetti and Ferris fol.
lowed the child to the store, and, stop
ping her a. she came out. found she
was carrying a box containing sutfi-
cicnt heroin to furnish drug hawker
with no fewer than ten sales. They
took the girl back into the store and
arrested Bass. In his cash register
the marked bill was found.
The detectives then took the child
home and arrested her mother. Mrs.
FIGHTER was charged with selling hero
in without license. A similar charge
was made against Bass. and in addi-
tion he was charged with selling TO a
minor. Both were locked up at the
Stace ST. station. The little girl,
Sadie, was sent 20 the Childrens So
ciety.
Dr. Charles Francis Baxter, for
merly a physician in the work
house on Blackwell's Isiard. was yes
terday sentenced to pay fine of $500
and to serve term Of one year for
selling morphine to prisoners. Sen
tencc was imposed in the Court OF
Special Sessions by Justice Russell
who said:
This court has a pleasant duty 10
perform In sentencing such a creature
as you. You we're one Of the main
sou COS of supply of drugs in the
workhouse. and in selling these drugs
you were a traitor to your oath and
a menace TO the community. Although
you will later be arraigned in the
Court Of General Sessions on more
serious charge. you are now sentenced
to the full limit Of the law"
The more serious charge referred
to is the bribery charge on which
Baxter has been convicted. and for
which he will be sentenced to-day.
Patrick Crimmlns. an investigator
Of the Charities Department. sub
mltted a report yesterday charging
that Baxter had been in trouble in
various hospitals on account of traf-
ticking in habit-forming drugs. Grim
Minis reported that six years ago Bax-
tors political influence in jamestown,
\. Y. was so powerful that when he
was accused Of fraud there Governor
Hughes found it necessary to appoint
a special prosecutor that justice might
be done.
Sentenced to year in the pcnltcn-
tiary for harinC morphine in his pos
session. James Madden. formerly safe
robbcr. said to Justices Salmon. Ker-
rochau and Russell. in the Court OF
Special Sessions. yesterday:
you'll have TO send me TO the cleo
trio chair 10 keep me from taking the
drug. Every time ! get q shot Of it /
feel ike committing a crime. That is
why ! was mixed up IN fourteen safe
lobbcries in Kansas"
When arrested, Madden lived at rs
Third ~.
one Of tho youngest persons to be
sentenced Under the Boylau arti-druG
law h. Lawrence Mcmahon. tUeuty-one
wears old. Of 200 East goth ST.. who
Yesterday was sentenced to sixty days
In tho workhouse. He was convicted
Of having hcroin in his possession.
Several decks" Of the drug we're found
W dor his pillow.
Walter Owens. twenty-eiGht. Of 100
East 9Sth St. was sentenced to thirty
days i'm the workhouse. following his
conviction Of charge of having
heron.
DR.. Willie Scho-h p druggist. who
has store at 300 Eighth ave. vas ar
rested with his clerk. Morris !. Sando.
Of 2t7 West SD st. last night ny De
tcctiyo Iydg and Lieutenant Erb. Of
the Cocaine squad. on charges Of lie
gally selling a small packet of cocaine
to May Morgan. an agent Of the police.
The detectives also arrested in the
store a man who said he is Richard A.
Foinstcin. OF 251 West 35th st.