New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-07
F all Made Stage Genius
A DereEct on Sea ofDope
George Weston Tells Drug Investigator How He Climbed
Mount Blanc to Fight 1t Out, Then Paid $500 To
Be Taken Down to Get Morphine

fve-grain prescription. ! couldn't stand
that rate long.
next | found out, through another
doctor, how to buy morphine in the IN
der world. I followed couple of crooks
into a rookery where half dozen girls
were smoking opium. There ! bought
an eighth of an ounce for $26. ! went
back there only once.
Through a druggist friend I met
another doctor, who treated me and
cut me down from twenty-five grains a
day 10 seven grains. Another doctor,
later, tried sure cure on me. His
system was TO reduce the dose by a
grain n day But after the sixth day |
couldn't stand IT, That wasn't any cure
at all.
During all this time I was writing
scenarios here. | took a vacation and
went to Warwick Farms, at Cleveland.
They nearly killed me there with sweat
blankets. Part of the time they chained
me to wall | was able to buy NOR
phine from keeper. After two weeks
escaped.
Tries Cure" in Convict Camp
Returning to New York, tried the
Towns Institute, on Central Park West.
j NtlI DIlNt do tbb ilSA oNiAN"AN'N
between $3.50 and $500. | had come
back by way of Florida, where my
cousin, the Mayor of Jacksonville, had
me try another cure in a convict
camp.
"Finally I struck a doctor here in
the city who seemed to understand
drug cases. He sent me to the internal
revenue people, and | registered with
That same night | was arrested ana
thrown into the West Thirtieth Street
police station. They took away my
needle. | begged them to get doctor
for me. Nobody paid any attention;
got wild, and the keeper hit me with
poker.
"They held me forty-eight hours for
investigation when | was hrst ar
raigned in the jefferson Market court
and then another forty-eight hours Tor
examination. A doctor came from
Bellevue and gave me some sort OF IN
lection, but il didn't do any good /
tried to commit suicide by hanging my
self and by slashing my wrist with a
broken watch crystal.
"They verified what | had said about
registering and finally discharged me-
Uses Ten Grains a Day
Weston said he is now using from
six to ten grains of morphine a day,
Among other witnesses heard by the
committee was Mrs. Bella Davis, who
wept as she told how her son Geohrey
had become a heroin addict. He, too.
had been through a half dozen cures
without effect the mother SAID.
"As a last resort" Mrs. DAVIS SAID
"my boy enlisted in the navy, hoping
TO get away from the drug. They kept
him ashore instead of sending him TO
sea. | knew and he knew what would
happen. He was dishonorably dis
charged when he finally was forced to
confess his affection"
George Henderson, dining car
waiter. said he had no difficulty IN get
ting opium in any city in the country.
his chief lament was that the price has
cone from IS can to S2S.
out Of five witnesses heard yesterday
only one testified TO having found a
cure. That was a young automobile
mechanic, whose name was gwen pri-
vateIv to the committee. lie said he
had lost his taste for heroin after
spending month last summer IN an
institute here.