New Britain herald., 1917-08-23
FIND DOPE HIDDEN
 IN SAFETY VAULT
Nurse at Sanitarium Produces
 Roll of S2S,0o0 in Bills

New York, Aug. 23-More than 200 drug, addicts were netted yesterday in a raid on the brownstone dwelling Mo- East One Hundred and Twenty fourth street, alleged to be sani- tarium for dope fiends. The raid was by squads under Richard Yancey Jr. of the secret service, and Police Lieut. Scherb Two persons, said to be principals in drugs, were arrested pr. Daniel Spence. an elderly phy- siclan, and the head nurse, Miss Der tha Chamberlain, twenty-four They were taken downtown and arraigned before Federal Commissioner Hitch cock, charged with violating the Anti Narcotic law
 From roll of $23,000 Miss Cham berlain peeled off s5,0oo and the pris- oners were released pending exam ,ination in $2,500 bail each.
 Morphine and it's derivatives valued at more than $10,00O were seized in a, safe deposit vault at the Harlem branch of New Jersey institution. In the same vault according to Yam 1 cey and Schorb, were $75,00O in United States Steel Corporation se- curlt1es, besides a large amount of money.
 l Marshal Mccarthy and Assistant 1 united states Attorney Stanton re- manned Tn the sanltarium until late | last night, frlsklng dope fiends who kept drifting into the place unaware that 1t had been seized. Every man l who looked to be under thirty-one was searched for his military regis tration card, and if he had none he was sent home to get it in a hurry. The name and address of every caller were listed.
 The sanitarium had been under surveillance several weeks. It was formerly conducted by pr. Daniel J. Hoyt, now a lieutenant in the Army Medical Reserve Corps, on duty some where in Kansas.
 Stool Pigeon Used.
 A Tombs petty prisoner as a stool pigeon was sent yesterday to the place and succeeded in getting in and purchasing, he alleged, two ounces of heroin by pretending to be dope fend in desperate need of "bracer' ' When he emerged with the drug Yancey and Scherb led their men in and forced their way past Miss Chamberlain into the inside office where they found Dr. Spence.
 The physician protested, but was taken down to the Federal building The house was ransacked from attic 1 to cellar, but no bedridden patrient: were discovered.
 Mir. Stanton said the place was tht biggest coke nest uncovered in any recent raid. When the agents pushed in, Miss Chamberlain locked the safe I but she was persuaded to open it ane fI I,o contained She led the raiders to tn, safe deposit vault, where they seized l the remainder of the stuff, consist ing of heroin, cocaine and morphin, sulphate.
 The men and women who called a , | the sanitarium for drugs during tn afternoon and night were mostly un ! der forty and appeared to be of th better class of addicts Some begged for a dose to relieve their misery. Al who had hypoderm1c needles wer turned over to the police for prosecu tion under the state law. Those wh' had no registration cards and coult give no explanation were put il charge of Marshal Mccarthy.
 This Is the third big raid in Man haitian in a week on physicians of fees by revenue agents and the DO
 lice. The government has directe
 Yancey to comb the city in order t
 minimize the opportunities for sup
 plying dope to soldiers and sailors
 So far no soldiers or sailors have bee found in any important raids, and
 is said the recruits are freer fror
 drug contamination in this city tha
 in years past. S The addicts found in the raids be 5 long to the might Me" crowd.