New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-22

words. The portraits represented d, Il
man with a strong. powerful face The
attorney said that some of the pct
ures issued by these doctors were those
/ Of famous men. One, he said, he rec
| ognized as that of Oscar Wilde, an
/ other of a well known New YORK law
( yer. while a third represented a famous
| Civil War general.
Mail Order Man Held.
Sydney s. Engleman, of 1888 Irvine
Street. manager of an establishment OF
| Landes. was held in $1,000 bail; Dr.
/ Andrew NJ. Ewing, in the same amount
and Abraham Coopeman. of I'll Avenue
/ A in $500. Bail for Louis Price, an
! assistant. of 81 East Third Street, was
/ fixed at 81 900.
/ The next automobile load brought
/ into the court DR.. Thomas Ward, whose
Office is at At Sixth Avenue, and three
/ of his assistants. DR.. Ward was held
/ in $1,000 bail; Smiley Blackwood, OF
/ 224 Eighth Avenue, and Otto {. Bu-
beck. who gave the number OF the
establishment as his heme, IN Si;0Vo'
and Maxwell Branner, Of l4l west
/ 127th Street in $1,000.
A few minutes after this group had
obtained bail, there was brought IN
/ DR.. Louis Metz, whose place OF busl-
ness is 316 Second Avenue. lie was
characterized by Mr.. Whiteside as
"the mail order specialist" a man
who can cure a person OF disease
without even seeing him. His bail
was placed at $1,000, and his assistant,
! Saverio MOTTO. of 10 Jones Street, was
later released in 81 900 bail.
EfthimIos Efth.mlon, who conducts
an establishment on Second Avenue,
near Eighth Street, came next. II was
! shown he had been convicted once be-
fore of selling drugs without license,
but he continued to assert It was only
! harmless quinine pills that had been
bought from him. tie waived examina-
ton, and was held in $500 for illegal
practising of medicine.
After Magistrate McAdoo had sd-
iourned court, after o'clock last
night, detectives continued to bring
prisoners to Police Headquarters. These
were rounded up from five Offices and
museums.
The first group was taken from a
place in West FOrty-second Street, and
was composed of DR.. James Flpper,
of POS West Forty-second Street, and
his assistants, George Moscow, Of sos
I West Forty-third Street, and Milton
/ Sampson, Of 208 West Forty third
Street
/ DR.. William b. Hunt, and two Of his
assistants, who operate at 234 Bowery'
were next. The latter were julius
Jelsik, of 347 East Fifty-fourJh Street,
and John Tulea, of El5 East llfth
Street.
Nuisance Charges Made.
They were followed b. four prisoners
from the Harmon museum, which is run
at l46 East Fourteenth Street " IN
Or. Franklin Z. Hanan, of l3l East
Forty-third Street, were Charles y.
Noack, OF 40 West Sixteenth Street;
James c. Won Spiegel, of l5l East
Twenty-frst Street, and Adolph SIuteni
coiored.
All of the prisoners were charged
with aiding and maintaining a public
nuisance. Dr. Nicholas Metaxas, OF l3i
East Twenty-siXtn Street, was next
taken into custody, for alleged fraudu-
lent practice, as was Dr. Constantine
Lyras, of pol West Forty Street
Most of the men arrested had law
yers and found 1t easy TO obtain bail
OF the tifty-four prisoners only eleven
were compelled to spend the night IN
cells.
Fifty-seven warrants were originally
issued by Magistrate McAdoo, but IN a
few cases more than one was issued for
the same man. Two were for DR.. j. c.
Brown, one at his former place OF bust
ness and one where he operated more
recently.
The inspector stationed plain clothes
men in each of the raided museums
and Offices, so that no one could leave
the premises.
Most of the cases were adjourned
by the magistrate until April %, at II
O'Clock in the morning, and one group
the men taken from DR.. Wards es-
tablishment-wlll appear the following
day.
+. The authorities who have had charge
OF the campaign will not let up in theil
work until they have swept the city
clean of all the museums and institu
lions, large proportion of whose pro
pretors and their assistants were made
prisoners yesterday.
s1ay Turn States Evidence.
Detectives later arrested DR.. Franz
Thompson Brough, of Hackensack, a
his place at 20 East Twenty-seconC
Street.
All the men who appeared befor,
Magistrate Oorrlgan IN the mems nlgh
court were released in $500 bail
Mr.. Whitehouse said after the las
prisoner had obtained a bond from
/ surety COMPANY that the four ringlead
ers of quack medicine practices had al
, been arrested. These, he asserted, ha,
well worked out system extendin,
over the United States. One of thu
, men, he added, would probably turl
, states evidence and would expose tn,
operations OF the doctors.
Magistrate Corrigan asked him wha
the men were charged with. and h
told him.
why, if they have extorted none,
from patients under false pretence
! they should be held under a larcen,
charge" he replied
, But Mr.. Whitehouse explained tina
. il would be easier TO prosecute eacl
case individually, under the two ale
, cations, OF maintaining a public nui
sance and fraudulent practice.
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