New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-28
STOLEN DRUGS
MAY KILL BOYS
ON HARRIS ISLAND
Three Near Death, AZ Ill
After RiSking Death to
Raid Hospital.
DRINK MIXTURE
OF MANY POISONS
Lads Collapse at Ball Game,
Others on Stairs-DoctOrS
Work Hours Over Victims.

IA 0Tk F1OuTS over AlCIiInS.
-Four youths at Hart's Island are
near death and seventeen others serl-
ous,y sd g, a result OF their breaking
into The .-trmary Of the reformatory
yesterday afternoon, stealing bella
donna and other poisons under the sup
position they were morphine, and, TO
satisfy 'ho.r craving for drugs, consum-
irr the entire amount. The poison was
obtained 1y the young men by working
with grea, difficulty through an open
slylght. crawling hand over hand
along q wall, fall from which might
have meant death, and by forcing open
vi-dow.
Amazed, not so much at the ease
with which the dangerous drugs were
obtained, as at their urdetected dis
trbuaou, District Attorney francis
Marin ~ The Bronx. announced that
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subject OF Crano jury inquiry 'o-Ho'-
-oV
aa4,l~s m tho leland have been
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su'.ecl 10 S''Ea,.o" ~, "a, ~ 49,.
'1'- - ,, - 5;-.r,hu.;o,
h'.' % "i 1ss a''1 ''''''
will be laid before the grand jury
We shall Try 10 fnG out wneJner one
L.. ...-. .,-.~;,.o5 erd carrisd ont
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the whole scheme or Whe'heI Se'eI@i
were .-rrIicated."
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AlteF d !a'e "'""'' o00-s -
mates, in charge OF John ). Ryan
L.,,,r lof. +bo moss hall and walked
60 -.L.o -
over 70 the psSeDa" "e'1' ""''0 .
game was scheduled between two OF
81. .,s.;.-.;or teams Alfred Lent.
"a 80 .Lo ers. %
twenty -o"e '"'S o.-'
be taken violently lll.
The keeDer ordered Lent carried 70
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'.t HosF',"''
ate.y another BOY was seizeG win lne
same symptoms. Se'eTa! poys were
coming down the STAIRS OF 'He 'Ils'' u, u,
uoH. Inc! d.oPFeu 10 ne --o1t.u Ia
agony IN a le" i"iu"S'S IN -
r.taI where they were strapped 10 thelr
beds
Doctors Modified.
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Meanwhile the reiormatoIE o.ACla'S
...r r.Gr l.si ,t y"s ordered TO CITY Island
and there physicians from FOR. Eoroham -.,,
and Lebanon Ao7pItals were yah'!. 1 u. o'.' ILL.,,
Foriy-aNe boys We're eAaI'..l.,I me. 10. a.. ~ Nv
hosE'.. ---"lF- ~ " ,II 80, Z. ,r ~ .
unaHrc.el. ne o1"''' IT, rL,-s;cia,,ss
lA various G,s.tes -. - -. ~
were Tuzz.eG az hIs' "ua1 - - -s - ',,,e
6eeE 'aheG. pttause M. ~ -. Le-
eau Oe'l -au. ia. ny ~ ;,,s+i+rtion II
Io1t oe g. 60 tbsv rad ATTAINED
S"s ,..u-t.'' % Inn on insnectjon.
.-...- -.''-'' mo-. I'D .bs+ most Of the
49,, ,tc,. IaG ,okon was belladonna.
T.. r.ra.-ior was the most seri-
,re ID, .rrGrvarr. Of Fordham Hos
r,,o1 y..-..g5 ,yrr him for several min
-. .... t1. orgfrarv treatment was
- s-.r TLrco o+her serious cases
t.Jj 4',.--,,F IN erotber mart Of the
Ios,,,sf ftev we're those of James
Wrf5,o- .s-..oe~ vesrs old. Charles
CS-',.o",.- CSD-o zen ard Fml MYERS.
ssys~,,er
or an FCIr ITS -ACNOFtLil TT dllNL A~A'1'
Glso o. Fordram Hospital, worked over
the rhr,e boys To quiet them apo
morphine was administered. Inmates
o. The institution we're oetaliea 10
watch over the others IN the lh!'l'alS .
Ni,ed Several Drugs.
The d'a'ed appearance OF the eyes
and & Ilsa on the arms indicated 70
u. physicians that their patients were
suHeHng from curious SoLT
polsoniAg. an lh'esltga..on u,SotoSTJ ia
.S. 'He 10, ".c.i'e 0To'i'i. h,,iiS,, 80 be5 heoT
I,'' .I ."y 'li's' ,,,a,,;,t, nF beIIa.
49,. - i...;,,. en-" 9 - srG ritro-
t.ySSv''' '"D'g .. ...,',',I,. ,"ny',' Ia ,,ss
49, 80 ny. oPP.' 49, 'cor,Girst;or
rsv,,.r- a.. .'al,a,,,l,, ,oieorops
y,1,.-..- ,'-a.oo - tbr+
49, . .'l' s5..,.5
a, I ,' ".'.'u .s:,;,,, os .bo boys
becsr,c -, "a R-CGnt,e g Tcwjs. pen
nv yv"i', G,- n4o~n b-I'es'1 r-rac,;o, " n' VS.
3 state Of collapse e"1i from n the drugs