New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
.l68 Seized i'm
Round Up of
Drug Addicts
Estimate Made That in Cru
SADIE Against Use of Mar
cotics Ss2,lO0,O 900 WORTH
Has Been Conhscated
To1nbs Is Overcrowded
Justice Kernociian Stops Suf-
ferers' Clamor by Send
ing Them 10 Institutions.

Approximately S2,100,0o0 worth Of
herosa, cocaine and other habit-form-
ing drugs have been confscated from
Illicit dealers Of this city in the last
six months, according to estimates
given yesterday by local and Federal
officials.
DR.. Carleton Simon, special deputy
rection scores of detectives have been
working. said his force had seized
drugs the vending value Of which prob
ably was $4,000
F. j. Fitzpatrick, chief of the Fed
eral Narcotic Squad, said conserva-
tive estimate of value of the drugs
seized by his Office in the same period
would be 100000.
The figures represent efforts to curb
the drug evil and are said by DR.. Simon
to be indicative of the results to be
achieved by special crusades such as
the one undertaken last Tuesday to
clear the city of addicts and persons
from whom addicts obtain supplies.
Wholesale Sentences
DR.. Simon said that in the first
thirty-six hours of the local crusade
1927 arrests were made Of both vendors
and users, 80 per cent Of whom are
persons with police records of larceny,
burglary and other offenses, including
previous cases of addiction or selling
and violation of paroles. Forty-two
more arrests were made late yesterday
and last night, bringing the total up
10 100.
Drug arrests have become so nu-
merous that the Tombs yesterday was
the scene of q near-riot Prisoners
grew delirious for lack of heroin, CO.
came or other narcotics and resorted
to shrieks, pounding and other violent
means of demanding supplies.
For fear that some would attempt
suicide, DR.. Perry NJ. Lichenstein. the
Tombs physician, appealed to Chief
Justice Kernochan of the Court of
Special Sessions to order special
calendar to dispose of the cases and
relieve the prison of overcrowding. AS
result twenty cases were tried dur
ing the afternoon, pleas of guilty be-
ing made by seventeen of the alleged
addicts, one q woman Each was sem
ttHCSu 10 serve q Term III a peulbCu-
tiary or workhouse where they will be
given treatment. Sentences were from
four months to three years.
Many Are Negroes
All who admitted guilt had narcotics
when taken into custody. The woman.
Sadie Hall, forty years old, of POT
West Forty ninth Street, was arrested
July &c by Detective Joseph Conner, of
the Narcotic Squad at Houston and
Mott Streets She was sent to Welfare
Island for four months.
Twenty-Five addicts appeared before
Acting Chief Magistrate John f. Nc
Geehan, at 800 Mulberry Street, and
were committed to the workhouse hos
pital for drug cures, which they had
voluntarily requested through Detec-
tive Sergeant Furlong, of Deputy Com
missioner Simon's staff Almost all of
these are negroes and during their ar
raignment it was necessary to call an
ambulance surgeon to attend them
Later forty other prisoners were ar
raigned in Essex Market Court on
charges of violating Section 131 of the
Sanitary Code and held in bail of $500
each for trial in Special Sessions by
Magistrate Peter J Hating. They
were rounded up by Commissioner
Simon's force.