The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-20
DRUGGIST FINED;
SOLD TubERCuLIN
Now George Freisheimer Is
Anxious to Take Back
Guilty Plea.
DANGEROUS OFFENSE
State Officer Asks Court
TO Punish Man: Babies
Lives at Stake.

Charged with selling tuberculin with
on, proper authority. George Freish-
eimeg. owner and manager OF the
Garden City Drug company, pleaded
not guilty before Justice Of the Peace
Phil Gagnon yesterday afternoon
Then. on the witness stand, he ad-
mitted his guilt and changed his plea.
bringing the proceedings to a sudden
close.
Now he wants to change back again.
| 4 rcpndiate everything" he said
last night. Il went back and told the
| judge made Il mistake. I'm not
guilty"
Case Closed, Says Judge.
But the court heard him the second
| time.
He pleaded guilty and the ease is
said last night. Tomorrow | will
| pass sentence on him"
| The sentence, according to the courts
decision yesterday, will be $o5 fine and
80 days in Jail, the Jail sentence TO be
suspended during good behavior.
| t'reisheimer was charged with sell :
ing tubercuin to Henry Cyr. a Grass
/ Valley dairyman. He first admitted
this but now denies ii.
| 1T is an injustice to Cyr to say ihat
he bought it, said the druggist last
night.
Thwarts States Tests.
Tuberculin is a sterile fluid whose
only use is in testing cattle for tuber-
ealosis. Healthy cows give no reaction
to the liquid, but injected into tubercu-
lar COWS it produces an immediate
rise in temperature. The fluid is used
by the state livestock sanitary board
in testing cattle. it is also used by
some cattle owners, who disguise tu-
bercular cattle by injecting them witt
, tuberculin before 4 test, so that tn,
test will show no reaction
State Officer Asks Punishment.
: The seriousness Of Illicit sales .
tnbcrculin, which cannot be sold with
out permission from the authorities
Was indicated by ~Dr. ]. W. Butler, sec
rotary of the livestock board, who ap
peared in court to press the charg
, against Freisheimcr. DIR. Butler de
'i.'i'L tiiit ma Nt'ltN III SUN
sections could be reduced 80 per cen
with proper tests for tuberculosis i
cattle and implored the court to punis
: the Missoula druggist.
DIR. Butler. in his remarks to III
court, pointed out the necessity fc
', strict obedience to the letter of III
' law forbidding the sale of tuberculil
The violation in Freisheimer's cas-
y, =, was that he had neither obtained pei
y mission of the board before the sal
- nor notified them after the sale Ia
y been made, as the law provides.
Lives Of Babies at Stake.
The purpose of this law" said ID
Butler. us to prevent owners of DAN
herds fom inoculating their catt
With the tuherculn in order to pre-
y vent Il reaction to the tuherculos
tests which our inspectors try to mai
of each herd in Montana once a yea
q l'y injecting tubcrculin into a disease
"a COW, the owner may render it impo
= Sibl" for our inspector to tell wheth
Of or not the cow is diseased, and he m;
" 80 ahead and sell the tubercnlo,
s milk.
is II would be willing to euarant
a. | that if we could have the Who'll
t. hearted cooperation Of the dairym,
II. in any locality whore there arc
" sanitary provisions at all. We col
reduce the infant mortality in tho
districts 30 per cent in five years.
Appeals for Sentence.
When first we started out to Gle;
|S up the diaries of Montana we we
bitterly opposed by all dairymen. nh