Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-29
DRUGGISTS ARE
CHARGED WITH
ILLEGAL SALES
Judson Cunningham and
|. Roland " Childrey Are
Placed Under Arrest.
SAID TO HAVE TRADE IN
HABIT-FORMING DRUGS
Detectives Intercept Notes Ex-
changed With Inmates of :.
City Jail.
on SCHOOL BOARD
Claim Sales Were Made to Drug
Victims for Human
ity's Sake.

Roland II. Chiidrcy and Judson Cum
ningham. wcll-known druggists OF the
downtown section. and prominent in
church. fraternal and business cir
cles were arrested yesterday after
noon by detectives from Police Head
quarters on warrants charging them
with the illegal sale OF hcroin and
morphine. They ave suspected by
the police Of being the source from
which the drug traffic OF the city
springs. and their arrest is the result
OF unt!ring efforts during Il long in
vcstigation The police nold notes
! sent to the druggists by men known
i TO be addicted to the use OF drugs and
who are believed to have dispensed the
. opiates about the streets These notes
arc said to have been honored. and the
police have secured the drugs Both
Childrey and Cunningham were re-
| leased on their avn recoguiklnnn by
Justice Of the Pc1c" =. j. McC irthv in
the sun! OF $500 each for their appear
ance III Police Court this morning
NOTES ARE: NOW IN
POSSESSION OF DETECTIVES
Detective Sergeant Krengel has been
| Investigating the drug traffic here for
weeks. hut il was not until recently
that he WAS able to secure sufficient
evidence 10 warrant arrests. Within
the last ten days Richmond physician,
several alleged vendors ana the TWO
drugg gists have been arrested Detec-
| tive krenEcl was assisted in the AR
rest OF Childrcy by Detective Sergeants
| Atkinson. Bailey and Wiltshire and
Detective Gordon Smith. Detective
Smith caused the arres; OF Cunning
ham. securing his evidence from the
arrest OF Pompey Flournoy on Sunday
afternoon. the alleged exchange of
notes between the druggist and in
mates of the City Jail and in packet
OF the drug which a messenger hoy Is
said to have obtained from Cunning
ham on I, note written from the jniI.7
10th DRUGGISTS ARE
WIDELY KNOWN CITIZENS
: Both Cunningham and Childrcy are
well known IN Richmond Mr.. Chlldrey
liz n member OF the City School Board
from the First District. He is promi-
rent in church work. and sings In the
choir Of the Leigh Street Baptist
Church. His drug store Is located IT
% Nortl, Eighteenth street, and he
lives at 32l North Twcnty-third Street.
Mr.. Cunningham. according TO :hc
directory, is manager FOR Scotts Drug
store, situated at Seventeenth and
, Franklin Streets He lives at 1903
Grove Avenue. While he Is said to he
the manager OF the store. detectives
at Police Headquarters are authority
for the statement ;hat he hough; out
the Scott estate several years ago and
| the man who made the store one OF the
/ most famous In the city. The police
also say that Childrcy and Cunningham
were n one time employed together in
Scotts store, and have always been
closely associated
NOTES EXCHANGED BETWEEN
IUMPKIN AND CHiI.DREi
The arrest OF Mr.. Childrey is the di-
rect result OF the arrest OF .. D. Lump
kin several weeks ago on charge OF
lams. 40l Eas. Franklin Street. to n
prescription for a quantity of cocaine.
Lumpkin was later rearrested on n
charge OF selling and otherwise dis
posing o. cocaine and DR.. Williams
was arrested on charge of illegal!y
prescribing the drug for a number OF
patients. Lumpkin is now confined in
the City Jail.
One day last week Lumpkin sent a
note TO Ch!ldrcy BY n messenger boy,
asking that the druggist let him have
n small lot of the drug. Cnildrey re-
fused to send any OF the drug upon
learning from the messenger boy that
no money had been sent. He told the
hoy TO return and tell Lumpkin that
he would have to send the money II
! he wished the drug. according to the
police information.
MESSENGER hoy GIVEN
ORDER ron DRUG
Lumpkin then sent the messenger
hoy to his home, 201 West Cary Street.
with Il note for his mother His mother
was not In the house at the time. and
brother, !. III. Lumpkin, received the
message. In the note Lumpkin asked
his mother 10 let him have a dollar
to redeem his clothes. which he said
he had pawned in order to secure bail
AS his brother was fumbling in his
pocket to secure the dollar bill asked
for, the messenger boy told him that
he had another note from Lumpkin,
and that he did not know what to do
with 1T. Lumpkin took this note, and
found that it was one addressed to
Childrey, asking that lot Of heroin
be sent him by the messenger
The brother dismissed the boy by
telling him that he would attend to
both matters, and then sought out De-
tective Sergeant Krengel The detec-
tive upon learning of the situation,
made copy of Lumpkin's note In the
presence Of the mans two brothers
and a third party and then sent j. Fl:
Lumpkin with the note to Childreys
drug store for the heroin. That was
on Sunday. and Lumpkin soon returned
to Police Headquarters with a small
wooden box Of the drug. The con-
tents were turned over to City Chemist
j. NJ. Whitfield. who in the course
of day reported that the snow white
naky powder was heron.
DECLINED TO SELL UNTIL
MONEY WAS FURNISHED
The first note sent to Childrey was
not honored by him on the ground
that the messenger brought no money
with him, and the druggist Is alleged
TO have destroyed ii. He sent verbal
reply by the messenger boy. However.
the note which j. II. Lumpkin Is said
Pto have written, read
Dear Dr. Childrey:
"Ploase send me so cents worth of
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