The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-20
Defence IS BEGUN N
Case OF Or. BROKER.
Dozen Witnesses. Several As to
Physicians Character. Heard
During Afternoon.
ONE WITNESS ON STAND DoPED
John Parker Compelled to Tell Where
He Got Drugs-Rulc Issued For
Two Witnesses. Absent When
Ol1led.

win tioidtiDnS OF the Harrison anti
narcotic drugs act, the trial may not
! ne concluded even by tonight The
prosecution concluded the introduce
| ton of direct evidence yesterday
morning and the defense opened up
It's case early yesterday afternoon. A
dozen Of the defense witnesses were
heard before the adjournment was
taken at Sis yesterday afternoon un-
It'll 10 o'clock this morning.
The defense is endeavoring to show
that the condition OF patients being
treated for the cure of drug ha bit
makes the treatment OF different cases
vary greatly: that the physician pre-
scribing is a better judge than the
expert who may be called to tell Of the
needs of the drug habitue, and that
persons deprived Of the drug become
vindictive toward the one who cuts
off the source Of supply and that when
on the witness stand are not likely
to be truthful
One Witness Had Doped Himself.
The morning session OF the court
was enlivened some when John
Parker. one of the witnesses for the
government, admitted that he had
taken cocaine during the morning and
was at the time under its influence.
Compelled to testify where he got the
drug he said II had been prescribed
for him by Drs. Simms and Woodson
DIR, Sims gave him thirty grains. ] C
said, but would not give him another
! prescription, and DR.. Woodson, pre-
scribinR for him, once. told him that
he would have to go to hospital and
take a course of treatment.
Two witnesses being absent, Judge
Waddill yesterday afternoon issued
rule for them. They were Mrs. Maude
X. Rowley and Mrs. Rhinehart
The defense began the introduction
Of its witnesses shortly after court re-
convened after the dinner recess First
/ to be presented was Mrs. Emily Bruce
She said DIR. Booker had been treat
| ing her for the morphine habit She
went to him, she said. on the advice
| OF DR.. Bryce. "Dr. Brooker helped
me more than any one ever before
| she testified Since DR.. Brooker has
been treating her, she said, what she
formerly consumed in a week now
lasted her for fifteen days She said
she had been addicted 10 the habit
! for thirty-three years
/ The next witness called. Mrs. Daven-
port, sent a doctors certificate show
ling the condition of her health to he
such that she could not appear in
court
! w G. Tarrant Of the Tarrant Drug
store. where many OF Or. Brokers
prescriptions for drugs have been fiil-
ed testified there had been no agree
ment between his drug store and DR..
| BROKER regarding the sale OF mar
fcotics,
Franklin Harwood. deputy internal
revenue collector. engaged in the en-
forcement Of the Harrison act, was
called by the defense, who questioned
him as to the working of the law.
DIR. Brooolxer's Character Good.
DR.. Henry Froehling, who said he
has known DIR. BROKER for thirteen
years. testified that the veracity and
probity of the accused are good
| r. H. williams, a printer, said DR..
BROKER had practiced in his family
about twelve years and declared that
| II he thought the physician was not
exactly what he should be he would
have changed doctors. J, C. Bosher
/ testified he believes DIR. BROKER. who
has treated his family for nineteen
years, Is all that a physician ought
I to be.
/ DIR. Roy. the physician who had
prescribed for James Hill, one of the
! prosecution witnesses testified that
! Hill was in bad shape and unfit for
work. DR.. Roy told OF examining Hill
| by listening TO his heart action. He
!
general appearances the condition
drug habtue is In. He said he al
ways advised addicts to go to the city
| hospital for treatment Asked by Mr.
Justis. of counsel for DR.. BROKER. as
| to Woods Twentieth Century Prac-
tice" DR. Roy said it is a standard
medical authority.
! Condition of the Addict
| J. X. Hall. connected with Westhrook
I ~, fcr TINA
formerly connected with an insane asy-
lum in North Carolina. said he had had
+ much experience with morphine ad-
diets. Asked by Mr. Cohen of DR..
/ Brokers counsel, he described the
/ condition OF addicts when the morphine
I Is withdrawn, as being nervous, weak
achey and sometimes irrational. He
considered man with drugs suddenly
taken from his as entirely unfit for
any kind OF employment and, if the
case Is a bad one his life may be ac-
1 tually in danger.
Dr. r. W. Williams followed with a
! description of the characteristics OF
the drug habitues and their cases. He
concluded with the testimony that In
! the main, cocaine addfcts must be
treated In the same general way as
morphine fiends. though the trea tment
of cases varies considerably, depending
upon the degree OF seriousness of the
case.
/ John c, Robertson of Forest Hill,
testified to the good character and We
racity Of I,r Brooker.
! DR. G. X. Simms, who has been prac-
ticng for twenty years. said he knew
I of DR.. Brooker, but was intimately
acquainted with him, He testified that
to cut eff the supply of drugs from a
/ habitue who had been using thirty
or forty grains a day or more would re-
suit In mental and physical breakdown.
Physician Must Use Discretion.
/ He declared physician must use
his discretion in prescribing In differ