The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-12-23
Detectives See Children Leave
! Classroom and Pay Money
EUF to Men in Street.
EVIDENCE SWALLOWED.
Negro, Fleeing From Police,
Eats Seven "Decks" and
~. Goes to Hospital.

The police have been receiving for
weeks letters from mothers in Har-
lem complaining that their little sons
often como home under the influence
Of drugs. Detectives were assigned
to catch the drug sellers, and to-day
seven prisoners were arraisned before
Magistrate Herbert 1. the Harlem
Police Court. All OF them displayed
the pallor. the nervous twitchings
ana the CLASSY stares peculiar to
users Of heroin. None would make a
statement. The detectives reported
some of them had said, when ar
rested, that selling drugs was the
only way they could make a living.
81 John Grain, who said he was n
bricklayer. twenty-six, Of No. 2e45
. West Thirty-hrst Street, Sea Gate.
came first to the bar.
Il saw this man." said Detective
Caspers. Of Inspector Bolan's STAFF.
standing after school, yesterday, in
front OF No. SOL East One Hundred
ana Sixth Street. Eight boys, be-
tween twelve and fifteen years old.
went up to him. one at n time. Each
handed him money. and each got
something from him. I arrested him
ana found In his pockets twenty
: three decks OF heroin and $24.s0 in
silver. showing that he had done n
big business"
IT." said the Magistrate, 81 had
nnal Jurisdiction in your case, sell.
Ing vile drugs to little boys. I would
sentence you to twenty years In
State prison. and not day less. You
are held In $500 ball for examina-
tien."
Harry Schuster. twenty three, a
spaver. Of No. 2l4s Second Avenue, was
standing In front Of st. Cecilia's
parochial school. in One Hundred and
.. Sixth Street. between Second and
Third Avenues. Caspers said he saw
several schoolboys go to him in a
hallway. hand him money and receive
something In return. He had ten
decks" OF heroin in his pocket, the
detectivo testified. He was held in
$4,000 bail for examination to-mor-
row.
Clarence Watson. twenty-threc, n
negro. when asked by a detective for
herOin. 10 alleged to have said he had
none on hand but would get some. He
as he came dSnVn the hallway. Caspers
grabbed him. The negro broke away.
popped seven decks of heroin into his
mouth. and as no ran upstairs, chewed
and swallowed all he could. He ran
through the apartment of Mrs. Ida
Barnett, on the first floor, and Owed
through a window. sash and all. to
tho back yard. He Is In the Harlem
Hospital suffering from decorations of
the scalp and heroin poisoning. He
will be arraigned Friday.
Edward Gluck, twenty-four, Of No.
1914 Washington avenue, the Bronx,
was charged by Caspers with having
five decks OF heroin. He was held In
81 900 bail. Frank Smith Of No. "a
East One Hundred and Fourth street
was caught at One Hundred and Fifth
street and Third avenue with ten decks
Of heroin and Sl6 in small silver in his
pockets. 1t Is charged. He was held in
$500 bail.
, :, Detectives Phclan and Mccullough
: got William Berlin, alias willie, the
Wop." In his room on the top floor
OF No. 2s3 West One Hundred and
Fourteenth Street. with two pounds
of sugar of milk, which Is used, they
! say. to mix with cocaine. He was
held in 81, 500 bail until Tomorrow. In
Berlin's room they also got William
Potter, a chauffeur of No. 240 West
One Hundred and Twentieth Street.
who had Just bought two decks" OF
heroin from Berlin. Potter also was
held for examination.