The sun., 1919-02-18
DRUG EXPERT AIDS
0'LEARY DEFENCE
DIR. Lichtenstein Testifies That
Morphine Made a Liar of
Nine. Victorica.

The drug evil. the predictions OF
drug addicts and questions concerning
the treatment Of the latter came UP yes
terday in the course of the defence that
jeremiah A. O'Leary and his counsel
are presenting to Federal Judge Hand
and a jury who are trying O'Leary and
his associates on indictments charging
violation of the espionage law.
Among O'Leary's witnesses were SOL
der named McLaughlin-whose parents
50 W fit to christen him William Jen-
nings Bryan McLaughlin--and DIR. Perry
Lichtenstein. resident physician of the
Tombs An effort was made to establish
the contention that the testimony of
Nine. Marie X. de Victorica, confessed
German agent, was tissue of falsehoods
and the creation OF morphine drugged
mind.
The testimony of Private Mclaughlin
was short. He was brought by the de-
fence from the Walter Reed Hospital In
Washington to help prove that OLeary's
public utterances at Terrace Garden in
October. 1916, and elsewhere contained
nothing of an unpatriotic nature. He
had heard OLeary speak. he said, but
his condemnstions were all for England
and not for the United States.
The next most important witness in
troduced by O'Leary yesterday was John
p. Moore, a consulting engineer. who Is
not unknown in Irish circles and who
was national secretary OF the Friends Of
Irish Freedom in October, 1916. Mr..
Moore gave O'Ieary a clean bin Of
health and denied that he had ever
heard him characterize President Wilson
as an autocrat. oppose the draft or say
anything that might inspire mutiny in
the army.
DR.. Lichtenstein took occs sion to say
that the doctors OF the country were
mostly responsible for the great increa Sc
in drug addiction. With the exception
OF his associate. DIR. Mcguire, he said he
| knew no professional man In the country
who knew as much about the drug evil
or who had made as close a study of the
effects of drugs upon habitual users. In
| his opinion no responsibility could be
attached to the testimony Of Nine. Vic
| torica, who admitted being an habitual
| user Of morphine for twenty years
Cross-examined by James W. Osborne
| I'd the witness said that it was unneces-
sary for him to examine the subject OF
his testimony, because he knew enough
/ of Nine. Nictorica's case from the rec
| ords of Bellevue Hospital and other
| testimony to declare. as an expert, that
| she was not responsible when she testi-
| fled for the Government last week The
1 witness said that he had treated some
10000 drug addicts in the last six years
and that his experience had shown tina,
after twenty years habitual use OF the
drug the victims are habitual liars
Ola Drug Addicts All Liars.
| Counsel for O'Leary attempted tc
1 -
effect OF drug addiction upon a person
| possessed OF a more or less brilliant
mind might be more pronounced ever
| than in the cases OF a, mental deficient
| The witness testified that the effect Of
continuous use Of the drug upon a per,
son OF education and culture was fire.
quently greater than upon a person o.
less mental endowment
What would be the effect upon ar
individual who through twenty year.
had taken seven or eigh. grains OF NOR
phne daily"
THAT person would be a moral de
generate and find it impossible TO tel
the truth"
| At this point in the testimony Mr.
Fielder. counsel fer o'Leary, proposed {,
read from a medical work on the efrec
OF opiates on the mind OF the habitua
user. but when one OF the jurors indl
Gated Discrimination to listen to (
counsel for O'Lcary cut his reading
| short.
Lieut. Theron J. Nosburgh OF tn
medical branch Of the army, formerly
physician on the staff OF Bellevue Hos
pital, said that he had treated Nine
Victor.ss az s-sNn~ .>hine addict Ernes
r. 1fnnIer. 106 Hez-~ "eventeenth street
foreman of the jury. interrupted u
witness to ask:
AS an abstract proposition. is it
fact that morphine makes An habitua
liar Of person addicted 10 its use"
Various doctors have different idea
about that" replied the witness. "Ther
is no doubt that n mental deteriora tiol
follows its use to n more or less de
gree
The trial will he continued to-day