New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-23
ANGRY SWARM
OF DUPES EAGER
TO JAIL QUACKS
Accused Doctor COnfeSses
as Medical Frauds Are
Hunted Down.
CHARLATANS FLEECED
MANY POOR WOMEN
Victims, of Various Nationalltles'
Give New Evidence-Well
Known Physicians Flee.

Several we'll known physicians still
are being sought by the detectives who
have been following up the raid OF
Wednesday night. Another arrest,
confession and the discovery of a num-
her of victims followed yesterday IN
the wake OF the roundup Of hfty-tour
alleged Guack doctors and owners OF
medical museums.
Men and women Of practically every
nationality swarmed 20 the Offices OF
chief Magistrate McAdoo and Mrs.
Marian X. Clark, chief Investigator for
the Bureau Of Industries and lmmlgra-
lion of the State Department of Labor.
eager TO tell of large amounts or
money paid for fake cures
Emmanuel Zymorakis. a Greek. OF :
lanes Street. was arrested late in the
afternoon by Central Office detectives
on evidence obtained by Samuel Auer-
bach. an investigator. The prisoner was
charged with practising medicine win
out a license and illegally conducting
an office where he treated both dental
and medical cases.
A. the Office of Mrs. Clark it was said
that DR.. Frank Thompson Brough, OF
Hackensack, y. j.. one Of the many
physicians arreste< by Inspector Eau
rot and his detectives. had made con-
fession TO Miles O'Brien. counsel tor
the bureau. The confession was said
to have been made in great detail and
to have exposed fully the methods used
by the doctors. DR.. Brough was one
of the physicians arrested in the mu-
scum of Dr. Franklin p: Harmon, at l4o
East Fourteenth Street
Accused Doctors Held.
Brought before Chief Magistrate
McAdoo Yesterday. DR.. Brough was
held in $500 bail. and DR.. William B.
Hunt, John Tulea and julius Kesik
were held in 81 800 bail for examina-
ton on April 2s. Bail for Sidney ,.
Engelman and Alexander NJ. Ewing was
placed at 81 900 each. All the prisoners
get hearing Wednesday morning.
George W. Whiteside, counsel for
the New York County Medical Society,
heard many complaints yesterday, and
was of the opinion that in number
of cases the charge of misdemeanor
could be changed TO one of felony. he
said that ne was seeking a way IN
which the property of the accused men
could be seized and some of the money
returned to the victims.
Frank Lord. Deputy Police Commits
sioner. and Inspector Faurot, who di-
rected the raids, collected a mass of
exhibits and bottles of pills of every
conceivable color that had been sold
by the doctors. They were placed in a
room at Headquarters.
Many victims of the doctors did not
hear of the raid until they called for
their usual treatment" yesterday and
found the establishments closed, and
in almost every case they started at
once to testify against the doctors.
The first witness examined yesterday
was Polish woman. She has two chill
dren. Her husband earns $l3 a week.
She had gone to 3l5 Madison Avenue
and been examined by DR.. q. c.
Brown, who told her that she was suf-
fering from cancer She paid him $50
for medicine, she alleged, and had Dor
rowed more from neighbor yesterday
morning for a further payment, when
she found the office closed.
A Pole has his case diagnosed as kid
ney trouble by a Polish doctor after
DR.. G.. c. Brown had examined him, and
paid $25 for medicine that had no ap-
probable effect. Another Pole, who had
ltItu lOl gtdL iiDIl SNOluhNll
trouble, received one of Dr. Browns
circulars and was examined. He was
informed that he had blood poisoning
and paid S75 for the treatment that was
to cure him in two months.
Arriving one day for treatment, he
found another doctor on the premises,
who claimed he would cure him for $50.
The victim then was handed a circular
in front of church one day, and, fol-
lowing its directions, went TO see DR..
J. c. Brown, of 80 West Thirty-sixth
Street. There he discovered the same
man who had once prescribed for him
at 3l5 Madison Avenue.
A Russian read an advertisement of a
Or. Byrne, of 208 West Forty second
Street, in a Russian newspaper and
travelled on from Springfield. Mass,
for treatment less than a week ago.
He paid IS for an examination, and was
told that if he paid 500 he could be
cured in one week. He paid the money
and yesterday found the Office closed.
One Victim Escaped.
Among the number of victims was