The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-24
DRUG DISPENSING
BRINGS FINES TO
MANY PHYSICIANS
Postal Officials Also Before
U. s. Court For Alleged
Irregularities.

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New Haven, Feb. 24-The. search
of Federal agents for violators of the
narcotic drug laws has had results
which were evident in the United
States district court yesterday. Sew
eral physicians and druggists were
fined for failure to register their
sales or for care1essness in keeping
records of their prescriptions for mar
cotic drugs. After Clarence F. Hotch-
kiss, druggist of Derby, had been
fined SIS and costs for failure to
properly record transactions, Judge
3. T. Thomas said he desired it to be
understood that persons convicted
were playing with fire if they disre-
garded the warning He said that
there would be jail sentences for sec
ond convictions. United States At
torney Spe11acy recommended a fine
of 500 but counsel for Hotchkiss
made a plea for Ieniency and the
amount was made the smaller figure.
DR.. Joseph O.. Ho1royd, a physician
Of Waterville. charged with failure to
keep records of sales of narcotic
drugs after properly purchasing the
sameh Holroyd said he had been
careless Mr.. Spe1lacy said that in
some measure this might have been
due to the defendants habits. A fine
of 500 and costs was given and the
DR.. A. s. Gale, a veterinary surgeon
of Hartford, who appeared to be
nearly blind when he was in the
courtroom, was led to the bar. Mr..
Spellacy explained that Gale had
used considerable drugs and had fall
ed to keep records, Saying that he
claimed to have used these lin collie
cures while the government believed
that he had dispensed it to habituaI
users. Clerk Pickett had difficulty<in
getting Gale to say whether he was
guilty or not guilty as he wished efto
explain Owing to his age and lin
tied practice Mr.. Spellacy recon-
mended IA 81 fine land reprirnand by
the court and Judge Thomas imposed
this.
DR.. Edward E. Rowen, of Stamford,
widely known physician, was charg-
ed with giving away narcotic tablets
which had been obtained on prescrip-
tons in other persons names. DR..
RoweH declared that he had never
dispensed the drugs but in his once
he might have given patients a tablet.
His own failure to record disposition
of tablets was due to the fact that
since an operation had. been perform
ed on him he occasionally used a mar
cptic to ease agonizing pain.
The court gave "a fine of $50.
Frank Smith, manager Of a drug
company at Willimantic, was c1arg-
ed with ref11ling a prescription for
narcotics in violation of the law He
was fined $50 after the court had re-
minded him that small fine was not
to be mistaken for 1eniency.
A. L. Embrey, a druggist of Siam
ford, who is said to. have filed pre-
scriptions for DR.. Rowe11. was fined
$50 for failure to record sales.
Feodor Federoff, who altered his
naturalization first papers in order to
get a position in Bridgeport and who
had been in Jail for three months. |
was fined $50 without costs.
Herbert w. Neal postmaster at
Marion, in Southington. was fined $50
for violation of the postal laws in that
he deposited SIS of postal funds to |
his own account one day intending to
send check to Hartford the next
day to balance his funds. The postal
inspector dropped in that day and |
found the money had been wrongly
deposited. Neal told the court that |
he never had stolen a dollar or had
any intent to embezzle. He simply
deposited with his own funds money |
that should have been kept separate, |
although it was only for an overnight |
period.
Maria and Myron w. Tucker, who
keep the postofice in MiddIefe1d, in |
their home, the wife being ~postnis- |
tress, were charged, the latter with |
securing $439.S by over cancellations |
in a two-year period, and the hus- |
band with embezzle1nent OF postal |
funds, in that he used postal orders |
his wife issued to pay bills, balancing |
the account monthly with his own
Mrs. Tucker today made
good the money overdrawn on can
collation. accounts.
Tucker said he did not realize that /
borrowing postal funds was wrong
when the accounts were properly bal
anced at the end of the month. Mrs.
Tucker said she did not know that
in drawing her salary through cancel
lations she had made excessive claims.
It was not understood why the couple
had done this as both had bank ac-
counts and property. Fines of 5000 |
each were given. |
Mrs. S. Busnel1, for nine years post |
mistress at Westbr ook, was charged
with embezzling $378.5O although the
shortage had. been made up. A let
ter had been sent in, her behalf stat
Ing that if there was a shortage 1T |
grew out aof clerical error. Mr.. /
Spe1lacy said the postmistress was of
excellent standing. A fine of SIS
without costs was given.
Linus HILL a clerk on the Wa1ling-
ford postof1ce. who 'fto jolly a friend" L
sent a letter in a franked envelope,