New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-21
So Keeper Tells Commit
tee Members, Who Re-
main UnCOnyinCed
COCAINE SMUGGLED
IN HEELS OF SHOES
Convict SAYS S. Has Been Mar
ket Price Of 30 Grain Bottle
Of Morphine.

Avcrring !, vas imposs bic 20 pre-
vent II, use Of drugs IN Sing SinG
,scr. Martin neeiy. assistant prime
"a, kccper told committee OF the
...,, P.;sor Commission yesterday
.,.. III. hes. that could be done was
.educe the use Of drugs 20 a MINI
b.. n.
Dcelv has been a keeper at the
,.-,sou for twcnty-three years, and ne
insisted that no matter how cIo'"l!
flo addi,ts were watched they man
aged % get drugs.
As result Of the committee IN
vestigations, howevery, they nave pc
come convinced that drugs are suppHed
"a tho prisoners from three sources
The keepers. the shipping department
.,J .ne ccllar-aLd in their report 70
,be LEGISLATURE they will recommend
.Lrast:c changes in these departments
~ addition to urging the segregation
Of all drug hends. =. u.J.
onn Veinstock and DR.. Rudolph +.
Tiodliro were the commissioners
n,escrt a, yesterdays hearing.
Deelv. i'm answer 20 questions o.
70 missioner Wade. said there were
nino,v-three guards AZ sing sing, "h2
came and went as they pleased ana
that II would De an easy thlhg lor
them 10 bring in drugs 70 the cohN'o'S'
Would Move Keepers About.
Deely said he believed in changing
,,e tecpers frequently from one de-
,,artment to another. He said he nad
noun cocaine. morphine and heroln -
Lo smuggled into the prison IN the hV'-
loved legs Of campstools and III V"e
nv w., rdon Thomas J. Mccormick. who
followed Deely, said that Neepv ,id
found selling drugs to prisoners ~ ~
no, ONLY be discharged, but wouId AlSo
be indicted. - secre,
~ no fact that they believe most u
the drugs used are supplied D{ NeeP
ers. They pointed out that tne sal,
aries paid by the state put premium
on the smuggling: ,o, so,,,a
before yesterdays nearing oeean 49, ~
~ tho commissioners lnVesIE a'ee Wy
cc,lar under the mess hall. Iney lou,'u
tba, etpplics are dumped onto u.0
nier and then carried without tNa''
nation 10 the cellar, wnere inc! az
sorteJ hy the couvicts. without any
s,,nor+.ision. Dcely admitted that no
inspection was maze o. Boo"'
went into the cellar. w..
Arthur Ferguson and Frank, D. way
4,,'a otbcr KEEPERS. agreed with the as
eistart principal keeper. .-.-
Ono convict told the mmisSlohers
oc quart bottle Of whiskey that was
carricd into the dormtory. Inc con
Wet said he drank 30 much OF 1ue
ubfsLev that he was taken uncoH-
ecious 20 the hospital. DR.. Henry r.
Vororess. assistant prison ph\S'c'aH'
corfrmed the mans story Of ms de-
bauch. UNNAMED
% tho hearing when convict, VINO
enid he had been cured Of the drug
habit. took the stand. ,
DR. Diodling. observing MN cloSely;
demanded. Didn't you take 'Sho
before you came here
Tho prisoners condition was Such
,bat the prison physician would nor
saw that no had not taken drug
Began as Pleasure Smoker.
The prisoner, who SAID he nad pee;
p drug user for fourteen years sald
he had frs; been pleasure smo"''
one who has not yet become
"Ncnd.' lie Sald tnat u hC nc"
NAMED about the shops he could nave
got all the dope" he wanted. lie
used TO take sixty grains of morphin>
a day. he added about Il Of an ounce
but had had none since February
Another prisoner said that up 20
few months ago 81 was the mar"e,
price for thrty-grain bottle OF NOR
phlnc. He had seen the price as hlGh
a. So bottle. Heron, he assert id,
brought So a bottle.
This convict added that he had gwen
much information 70 Warden Clancy
about the use OF drugs IN the prison.
and as reward had been shut up IN
.hc cooler" for nine days on a bread
and water dict.
Another convict said he had served
three months on BlackwelIs Island
aad had had no difficulty in smuggling
in "a supply Of morphine.
she commission will investigate con
ditions a. Clinton August : ard at
BlachHell's Island August II.