The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-23
CONTRACTED TO SELL
 VAST STORE or STUFF
Bridgeport and New Haven the Best Fields For Traf : fic Prisoners Friends Smuggle Drugs Into Jail, in Food, Tobacco and Un- der Postage Stamps Use of Drugs Almost Blotted Out Here.

Cured of the drug habit af- fer IS years in which he laugh ed at the efforts of police and surgeons to keep narcotics from him. Dennie Dowd, alias } The Dope King, has confess ed and laid bare the secrets of the drug traffic in Connecticut.
 For the last two years, Dowd has confessed he sold $1O;OOO worth of morphine, principally in Bridgeport and New Haven He sMeaFs he obtained it from
 Hartford druggist on pre- scriDtions written by Dr. Franklin Howard Smith of that city
 Dowd is at the county jail in this city, where, for the first | time in his career. he is not taking dope In fhe last two T7onEhs be has gained 3s0 hounds and ls declared cured Of the habit.
 IncfdentaI1y, the State Phar- macy commit ission zhas reported that the Illicit dealing in drugs has been wiped os1skof Bridge port
 Pharmacy commission st private hearfue held tn Haxt1ord ATFd1 6, it saaa been IeaRnad. and tnere he unfold d taaa tale Of how he axds EAa hea1ten- draks were able to keep ts1e drug users ia Connecf4c1t lszzpg1ed with n1oEDfE1raes 6erozr and c0cafnA Dr BEz1t<h vas rso1Td aw known aa .-xhe Dope king He was the head 0G 4aaa gang Chat cOy- cred Connecticut as Agentss with sub agents workzng4 Dor them. His only eompetttApn vas from 2 New York dis penser.
 Accordane to Dowass confession. which is in fne possession of tho State Pharmacy comzr11sedon. he contracted with Dr. Smith 1cr 1s7o0 boft1es of Enerphxne a month. H7s profits on the on February 56 of 'thfs year he received T9 bottles from the Hartford drug store on the prescription of pr. Smith
 HIS greatest sp1rce cf supply, DoTvd said. was from Hart6ord during the last two yeAns Ills tsst4ded tha& his best customers were in Bridgeport and New Haven and they averaged be- tween 100 and 150 a. week John l. BinnOns and John Unmaok of New Haven other dfspensers, were at the hearing, and corrob0rzEed Dowds Btatemenks. They had worked for him. E1aborat@ methods were taken to avoid detOct1on- So that his wife would no4 Aee him writing the pre- scriptions, DoHd declared, Dr. Smith look him out in an automobile and wrote them while riding At other times he went to a Chinese laundry to ao it. Sometimes he went to hotels.
 Dr. Smith was dismissed from the Medical society in Hartford not long ltdope'' f1end naistook another pr. Smith He was prosecuted but ob- Eained his freedom from lack of evil Hence.
 For the nrsf time since the dope" rice gained a foothoId in this city. amount of morphine here A careful Investigation by the pharmacy com mission has shown that not bit of lhs drug is being dispensed heRa either by agents or through druggists or pf1- dcians- The victims are getting along without it. as a, result Of the strict sur FeilIance caused by the federal nar- eotic Law effective a little more than a month ago.
 Dowd. the most notorious agent in the east, has been cured at the coun- ty jail. DF, O, Lincoln Banks, a physician who has had more expert snce with drug users than any Tnedd- cal man in the state, declared today that he has only one former user lefi R3 the Jail, and that is DOwd. He Is serving six months sentence.
 AThe Dope King was a wretched looking specimen when he was ar rested here tive months ago, New he has gained 30 pounds and he has not had bit of "dopep since the sixth day he was at the county jail Fer years he has been under arrest and has been treated by physieiaas but every time he has been able te
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