Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-14

| Hampton, president OF the Hampton
! Printing Company this morning asking
| for whisky for the use of his wife she
! is dangerously III with pneumonia and
| the doctor has told Mr.. Hampton that
! the only thing possible to save her life
| was the use Of whisky as a slim ulalt
/ gave Mr.. Hampton an order on the
superintendent of police for a small
quantity.
Kindly give this matter your early
consideration and advise me as to
whether or not should continue to exer-
else my sound discretion relative to the
giving Of these orders, or whether the
practice should be entirely discontinued.
Yours very truly,
FEDERAL PROHIBITION DIRECTOR
FOR INDIANA
Charles J. Orpison
JUDGE ANDERSON
Is rAST0NISuED."
Judge Anderson expressed himself as
"astonished" that Mr.. Orbis0n had dis
| tributed whisky in a manner that he,
himself had declared was without
warrant In law"
Among officials of the Government and
the State an impression has prevailed
for some time that Mr.. Orbison was act
Ing In accordance with authority con-
ferred upon him as prohibition Girec-
tor in the distribution Of this luuor
and they express great surprise both ut
Mr.. OrbtsOns admission that he did not
possess that authority and at their in
ABILITY to discover any law comforting 1t.
Jerry Kinney, chief of police, who has
permitted a large amount of liquor to
be dispensed on Mr.. Orbls0n's orders, de-
clared that Orbison had represented to
him that as prohibition director he had
the authority to dispense 1t.
There never was a question in my
mind" declared the chief, "of Mr.. Orbi-
sons authority to direct what should be
done with the whisky. We acted wholly
on his orders and were greatly relieved
when it appeared that a method had
been found by which we could get rid
Of a quantity of this liquor"
1t has since been pointed out to Chief
Kinney that the liquor seized by the
police is seized under the Indiana prohi
bitiou law and is subject only to the
finding Of the city court as to whether
or not it should he destroyed.
1t is admitted, OF course, that the Fed
eral authorities may take possession Of
this liquor under the national prohibit
ton laws, but it is insisted that this
cannot be dons legally except through
the proper legal proceedings, which
would be directed toward the Judge of
the city court, instead OF the chief OF
police.
The number Of grave emergency
cases that came up in the practice OF
certain physicians in Indianapolis forms
a remarkable feature Of the 1le Of orders
for the dispensation Of liquor as issueu
by Mr.. Orbison.
THIRTEEN FROM
ONE DOCTOR.
Included in the file are thirteen "emer-
gency prescriptions" written BY DR.. J.
i. Moschelle and used to procure free
liquor by the Dear Jerry" method.
Eleven such prescriptions bear the
name Of DR.. J. NJ Cunningham and six
are attributed to DR.. NJ. j. spencer. for
mer member of the city board OF health
Six such prescriptions purport to be
from r. Dwyer, four from T. f. Marker,
three from J. Frank Robertson and two
apiece from J. c. Sexton, W. d. Little
and G. K. Elfers OF Jolietville, Ind.
Other physicians who apparently have
encountered only one case each In which
whisky was indicated as a necessity are
Frank f. Albeit, Harry L. Foreman,
John H. Bull. d. W. Sheek, c. f. Cox.
J. Don Miller. J. {. Stephenson, Joseph
L. Conley Clark Rogers. Charles Il.
Sowders, u. a. feathers, J. 2. Nico-
demus, l.. Cunning, Charles Ferguson.
H. II. Click II. J Anderson, Ed c. Bach
nelI. >. l. " NeeltTs D. ESneELf " .
Kelly. W. II. Nussbaum, J. o, P1ryesr,
T. A Pare, A. W. Grayton, A. A. Hol-
l!ngsworth, r. A. Brown, r. w. Camp.
bell. w L. Brown. :. T. Wheeler, How
ard Drum Of Muncie, Frank II. Green or
RUSkville, J. G. Sexton Of Rushville, O..
b McNabb Of Rushville, Fl F. Snort Of
GreeuvilIe, Ohio.
Doctors who are mentioned In the
Dear Jerry" orders, but who do not APP
pear to have eiveh written prescriptions
for liquor procured on the order Of Mr..
Orblson. are: William f. Johnson, Jo-
seph L. Conley, Sluss, J. NJ. Rhoades,
Charles Il. Sowder. Williamson, w. +.
Walsh. T. c. Barnes, j. f. McCool, Judsrn
Moschelle. John NJ Cunningham, Jack
son. Eberweiu, N. B. Light. Cook, Han
nah NJ Graham, Bernard Kennedy, Rob
ert Moore, John Lambert, Ross Ottinger,
+. j. Jackson, W. s. Givans, L. c. Sam
mons.
The Dear Jerry" order which con-
tanned the name OF DR.. Thomas Beasley,
who says It was used without any au-
thorization from him. does not appear In
the file which was delivered TO the Times
from Mr. Orbison's Office.
The Times is unable to ascertain
whether or not the names of the other
doctors were mentioned in those Dear
Jerry" letters with or without authOri-
cation. In each Of the foregoing cases
Mr.. Orbison sought to Justify his Dear
Jerry" letter for whisky by declaring
that the doctor named had recommended
or prescribed whisky for the patient.