New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-17
INEBRIATES CAUGHT
IN DRUG DRACNET
Sentence as Narcotic User
Danger That Threat
ems the Bibulous.
POLICE RAIDS RESULT
IN MORE ARRESTS
Several Prisoners Beg for Term
In Sing Sing to Avoid
Going to Island.

Tho crusade against drug habitues
has now reached such stage that an
inebriate who visits the cocaine pei'
whiIe recovering from a debauch ID IN
Janoer of winding up in Bellevue OF
The METROPOLITAN Hospital under GEN
tence for treatment for a habit ne mas
not contracted.
In some parts Of the city the con
ditions Yesterday resembled the poi
SON needle" hysteria OK two years ago.
when il was a dull night when me en-
derloin and outlying stations dld NOT
reDort at least one case Oh "oii"H
drugged by some mysterious stranger.
Even in the Tenderloin, where ponce
and regulars are supposed 70 De "oi1
TO differentiate between memo anu
an ordinary alcoholic, mistakes are
made. Thus yesterday one case WSs
reported at the West THIRTEEN street
station house OF man dying from
done" in lodgings not far distant, tne
result. according to the report VI DVIIs
given morphine two weeks ago WIZ
citv musician. trained in drug cases,
visited the place he found man sui
fering from nothing worse than alco-
bolism. The only trace of deadly
drug" in the place was a sedative USED
There are, however, enough genuine
cases 10 use up the hospital aecommo,,
dations provided for such cases, ana
several arrests were made yesterday.
Agnes White, known in the bright ll9nt
district as blond Edna" was arrested
in house in West Thirty-elShth
street. charged with having drugs IN
her possession A package Of heron
and a hypodermic needle was the evil
dence against her, and she was gwen
six months i'm the workhouse.
With her at the time OF her arrest
was a man giving his name as Jean
beaumont and known to the police as
n moving picture actor. He protested
against the woman's arrest, but iater
in the day asked TO be recommitted 10
the Metropolitan Hospital. from which
he had been recently discharged as
cured of the drug habit. He was ac-
commodated. H..
Beaumont is credited by the police
with having devised scheme WHEREBY
a hypodermic syringe may be MADE
with the aid OF a soda syphon.. An
other man arrested for carrying drugs
was Francis Wilson, Of $50 Second
Avenue. Detectives Graham and Mas
ser picked him up at Thirtieth Street
and Third Avenue and found pack
age of heroin upon him. He was SEN
fenced to the House of Refuge.
Eugene Sullivan, Of 2l45 Amsterdam
Avenue, brought into the West Forty
seventh Street station last night on
charge of having heroin in his pos
session. told the desk lieutenant that
he wanted to be sent away for long
time. so that he could get rid OF the
habit
To escape the conditions at Black
wells Island. denounced by various Off
cal bodies as intolerable, the police
report that numerous offenders show a
willingness to plead guilty to more Sc
rious crimes than it would be posslbl lie
to convict them Of and thereby obtain
sentences to Sing Sing. This is par
ticularly true of ex-convicts, who de-
clare that one year on the island is
harder than twice that time spent in
Sing Sing.
Bernard Muroy. arrested for pedling
| drugs. declared that he had wished TO
be arrested so that he could be sent
+ to Sing Sing and get an opportunity of
/ learning a trade.