Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-08
RICHMOND TIMEsDIsPATCH: FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1915
JOSEPH C. WALT TON IS
PLACED UNDER ARREST
Large Quantity OF Herein Is Found
In His Travelling
Bag.

Large Quantity OF Heroin Is Found
In His Travelling
Bag.
GAVE DRUG TO JOSEPH RONEY
Coroner Taylor Certain That Viola
Norris Died of Heroin Poisoning.
Walton Tells Of His Use OF Habit
Forming Drug.
Detective Scrgcants Willy and Kel-
lam. with Policeman Bertucci. yester-
DAY morning arrested Joseph q. Walton,
alias Joseph McIntoch. forty three
years old. OF f.atrObe. Pa. on IL charge
OF giving to Joseph Rooney the heroiu
which is believed to have caused the
death of Viola Morris and the Illness
or several other negroes The dctcc-
tivcs arrested Itoncy carly Yesterday
morning. after he had escaped from
Policeman Cousins. but il was not un-
til they had worked throughout the
night and most of tn. morning that
they were able to apprchend Walton
lie VIII bc arraigned in the Police
Court to-day on "a charge of Illegally
dispensing hcroin The case against
Rooney was yesterday continued until
January l3 in order TO allow Coroner
Coroner Taylor said last night that
the symptoms OF the Morris woman's
death combined with the evidence
which he had already found within her
body led him to believe that it was
the heroin which caused her death lie
said that the analysis Of her stomach
and internal organs would REQUIRE
some time and that confirmation Of his
belief would he impossible until that
was done. Coroner Taylor VIII hold an
inquest over the body at his Office in
the City Hall this morning at 10 o'clock
WALTON TELLS OF HIS USE
OF HABIT-FOItMING DRUG
In many respects Walton presented n
pathetic picture last night AS he told in
sentences. often broken by expressions
OF seeming pain. how he had first taken
to the use of habit forming drugs five
years ago. He was running with n fast
crowd at the time. he said. and thought
he had to do as they did. The habit
grew upon him until 1t has caused his
mental physical collapse. The man
said that he frequently took Ave grains
OF the drug.
brought to Richmond from friend in
Norfolk, Walton said. NO, l can't
81" who the man was. He got them
from some one else. They cost me
sl.40 the hundred. and intended
Keeping them for my own use. but
! gave him quite quantity, ] don't
know how many. I have never sold
them or any other kind of drug"
HERON TABLETS FOUND
IN wALT0N'S GRIP
Detective Scrgcants Willy and Kcl-
lam and Policeman Bertucci located the
mans hand bag i'm IA store at Fifteenth
and Main Streets yesterday morning
and waited there for him to return.
He was arrested when he called to
claim the grip. In the hand bag the
officers found about coo heroin tab
lets. several blank prescriptions from
SCOTS Drug store. OF which Judson
Cunningham is manager. and four pre-
scriptions which Walton last nigh, adj
United TO reported for The Times
Dispatch were forgcries
The man also admitted that an ap-
peal. purporting to have been written
by Dr. T. III. Terrell. asking those who
felt inclined to donate money TO the
man for an operation. was Il forgery
DR.. Terrell earlier in the evening had
characterized the paper as a forgery,
and said that he had not given the
man 80, as the paper stated Walton
salu he had collected about $40 by
The use OF the paper but claimed that
the signature of Judson Cunninghum
donating 81 to him, was genuine He
claimed that Cunningham had given
him the prescription blanks on which
PRESCRIPTIONS ARE
SAID To he FORGERIEs
Each of these prescriptions called
Tor quantity Of hcroin In tablets of
one-twelfth of grain each There
We're four Of them. and they were
alleged to have been signed by Drs.
Terrell. Kurd, Kilgrove and Blunt
There are no physicians in this city
whose names correspond to the latter
signatures. DR.. Terrell said that Wal
Ton had come to him for an eXamina-
lion. and that he found him suffering
from internal diseases lie was also
recognized as a dope" taker. and the
physician gave him one prescription.
calling for twelve heroin tablets of
one sixth of grain each. This order
was written on the physicians own
prescription blank.
Other papers found in the hand bag
CARRIED by Walton showed that he had
been corresponding with several women
In Mckeesport and Belmont Pa Sew
cral of the letters spoke of inclosng
money to the man. and one of them
appeared TO have been written by
mission worker, who was apparently
cndearoring TO assist Walton to re-
cover his former position. The hold of
The drug was too great for this.
though. according to the story which
tn" man told last night.
Walton admitted that he had been
arrested before In Norfolk, and said
that the police there had measured
and pictured him when he was SEN
fenced to jail for three months on a
"use-breaking charge. He claimed
that he was innocent of this ofcnsc,
however, and said that he had gone to
'ail TO prevent another man. who had
wife and family. from being con-
victed
Joseph Roney. the negro who secured
the heron from Walton ana gave it TO
Lena Smith. Ruth Logan and Matthews
russell. all colorcd, was taken violent
iy III at the First Precinct Station af-
ter the detectives had captured him.
following his escape from Cousins, who
hred several shots at him. and had to
be treated by Ambulance Surgeon
walker. Each of the other negroes
also became i'll after taking "sniffs" of
the drug, and the surgeon was forced
to render heroic treatment TO all of
them. Despite his efforts il was
thought that the Logan woman would
die also yesterday. She recovered dur
ing the afternoon. though, and it is
now thought that she will survive