New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-29
ANTI-DRUC LAW
GETS MORE TEETH
Health Officials Adopt
Amendment to Control
Patent Medicine.

Further steps we're taken yesterday
20 bolster the Boylsn anti-drug law'
when the Department Of Health Off
Gals adopted ar amendment % the san
itary code which ia intended 20 pre-
vent tho sale Or patent medicines that
contain drugs that give the same ef-
feet OF reaction as cocaine and opium.
Fifteen men and four women were
arraigned yesterday N various courts
on charges OF being either sellers or
hgbtual users OF cocaine and hcroin.
The b gCest batch was in Long Island
CITY. where Magistrate Fitch had be-
fore him five men and two women
taken IN raid on a Queens hotel Mon
day night
The police believe heir prisoners arc
the principal dispensers Of the drugs
In Manhattan and Queens. The men
we're all held IN 81 600 bail each Tor
hearing TO-DAY. The women we're held
IN 5000 each for ass0ciatng with SIC
cious persons.
The prisoner we're Thomas Ruth
man cf 1851 Nam ST., Astoria; John
Banno1. 600 Sixth az; James Foley,
% Main st: john DURANGO, IS MIL So
Charles A. campbell. III Main ST..
Elizabeth Bel. 4OJ East "2d ST.. and
Nsrraret O'Counor. OF 1856 second a..
Both women ssvc Manhattan addresses.
JOSEPH ricanel.l. OF 100 CourtiAndt
sv I'll, Bronx. and Daniel Ryan, Of
1857 Third av.. were arrested last nlght
in a raid on candy snOp in Coutt-
landt az. ana locked mp I'D the ire
mont station on a charge Of nsVl1s
narcotics.
Arraigned under the name ~ John
Dec. of 400 East 5Jth ST., charged with
nav NJ morphine 10 his possession, q
prisoner wa recognized yesterday IN
Snocia, Sessions a man sought TOT
robbery 10 september. 1913, when Al
lid ,,oman lost 81 .O6J Nncn confront
90 b. Detective Deltch, O. the East
51-. 81. station. tho man admitted ina
he was sylvester Cutter. or 300 Las
18th st. He was held until August !.
The robbery charge viii have 20 wa,
until after that.
Mrs. Mamie Thompson. Of IA West
sOto St. mother o. three children. was
held IN 5000 by Magistrate deuel. in
Yorkvillc court. j.. Is alleged that
che had an opium layout
Detective Schaubcl told Mag stratc
Fresch in Essez Market court yester-
Gav that Charles Seaton mad tried to
sell him wal o. cocaine. The pris-
oner was held in $1,000.
Stepbcn Doyle, Of 9l2 Jennings az
Tho 3ron.. wa held in Yorkv.l.e court
IN await ANALYSIS OF what the police
"a arc eighteen deck of cocaine
He vas arrested n front OF rcstau-
IAN. I'M West f7th 60. after detectives
md trailcd him up Broad~ay.
Magistrate Murphy, 100 West SIDE
cour- held philip Shapiro. Of l43 West
"a - and Irene Zastro. negro. OF
,9s Wos- SD -t. in $1,000 bail for eX-
a,, marion tomorrow. They arc sus-
nected of having mad drugs IN their
In Harlem court Mag strate Lew
b,id Thomas Richie. OF 30 - l23d
a., arrestcd Friday. ir $500 bail for
trial after ne had pleaded guilty 10
bav,rg drugs Dennis Nc'ann' OF l'4'
~.ird 9v.. viii come uD aga ID to-mor-
row. $500 being INC bail fixed.
THO Justices n the Court u Special
1..-eio,s .aut two mon 20 The work
house for having heroin. john Mar
.D5 Of 1eI West 3fth ST.. cot SIX
..cr.bs Walter Hi. Of 302 Wet 4Oth
a. was sentenced % three months.
Springfield. Mass, July 2s. Joseph
2 Granficld, Of Boston, charged with
having heron. was sentenced 10 SIX
months I'M iail iu the police court to
day. He appealed, and IS held IN 5000
hail