New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-16
DOROTHY RUSSELL
TRIED TO Get DRUG
Actress Arrested for Add
ing Word "MOrphine"
TO Prescription.

Dorothy Russell, daughter Of Lillian
Russell, was locked up IN the West
Forty Street police station last
night for altering a physicians pre-
scription. The alteration consisted in
writing in the word "morphine.I 1t
was clumsily done. She collapsed IN
her cell. and an ambulance was called.
Arthur 3. Taylor, an Arverne lifesaver,
was arrested for presenting the pre-
scription at a drug store. 1t may be a
V alton of the new Harrison law.
Broadway throngs paused to stare
at the elaborately dressed young WON
an. who began to snriek and sob hys-
terically at the sight Of two patrolmcn
who accosted ncr at Forty
Street and Broadway. None recognized
her. but. as it was, the pstrolmen had
to thrust their way through crowd
when thcy finally persuaded Miss Rus
sell to accompany them to the station
house.
SAYS Man Was Blamclcss.
Her cream colored hat was aw-y her
rlusn coat sagGed whore her struggles
had ioosened the buttons, ncr white
.toIe draege1 On the floor, but Miss
Russell kept her composure. She tried
10 absolve from blame the man arrest
cd with her.
81 was about to 20 TO the hospital
for an operation" she told Lieutenant
Sackett "As it turned out, did not
90. But | needed the drug. | had TO
have IT. You can't imagine my suffer
ing No physician was available. did
not think it wrong, in my extremity, to
write what / did. Mr. Taylor had no
knowledge Of my intention"
Miss Russell gave little. cry and
graspcd the rail when the lieutenant
Informed her that she was charged
with forging prescription. She quick
lv Strengthened up and answered qucs-
tiOns a. to her age and address. At
first she said she was twenty-slN-- ap-
proximately After moments heslta-
tion she corrected herself, saying that
thirty would be nearer right. Her
name, she said, was Dorothy O'Rellly,
her home was at 245 West Fifty-frst
Street. and she was separated from her
husband.
The prescription which she Is said to
have altered was as follows: zone sun
O HYDRO syringe. Two extra needles.
One package tablets morphine sulPh.
u grain
DR.. Dudley Donnclly Stetson. of the
Hotel Flanders, in West Forty seventh
Street, whose name was signed 10 thG
nrescription, said his writing ended
MIN nc word needles" Or. Stetson
aid that Yesterday morning he had
been called TO the New Victoria Hotel
by woman who sara ohe was "'''
Dorothy O'Reilly.
The Real Prescription.
The woman explained that she was
IN great pain and about TO undergo an
operation. She wanted rehel: VI HteI-
son had a prescription Tor = grams
of morphine filled and LETT her lhe pre-
scription for the needles.
Miss Russell wrote q message TO her
mother soon after being locked up.
She was married last August to Ed
ward ID. O'Reilly, Pittsburgh broker.
In 1906 she obtained divorce from
Abbott L. Einstein, her first husband,
to whom she had been married three
Lillian Russell said early this morn
;,@, tbgt she had heard of her daugh-
TO- srrost and had asked her attorney
TO 20 to the police station TO see that
her rights were safeguarded. ,
She did not 60 to sec her daughter,
bu, ~ cont her automobile. which her
LAWYER used in dash to the men me-,
and women's night courts IN an eHort
to find magistrate. who would S'sh
Il bail bond. c.t.ott ., t;s
Later Magistrate OaupG'il az u'J
home accepted = S2,OOo pau 9ou"' "',u
the prisoner was released anu ''H'" "
her mothers home