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Asks Funds to Push
Drug Ring Cleanup
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distributors. They said they were ad-
diets to escape heavy sentences.
personally learned of ten such cases.
The guilty distributors will receive
full punishment.
The misery and crime caused by
Crugs cannot be exaggerated. Today
| received an affidavit from a man in
PottstOwn in connection with n death
Of man there. 1t was stated that
the men who got the drug walked all
the way from Reading 70 Philadelphia
TO obtain It.
Commenting on Judge Monaghan's
suggestion for an appropriation, Coun-
Gilman Pommer said Judge Mona
CHAN has done excellent work in d.
recting the roundup of the drug traf-
tickcrs. but in order that the evil may
be stamped out completely. it would
be we'll to keep Investigators at work
constantly. will willingly support
any request for an appropriation for
this work. -
CouncImen Frankcnfeld and Lime
burner also promised support Of bill
providing for such appropriation. and
praised the Judge for the work which
has been accomplished.
Heavier penalties for drug sellers will
be provided in a bill which may be in
trCduCed at the next session of the
Legislature.
Reiteratlng his statement made TO the
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER last week,
Judge Monaghan said that some member
of the Legislature may at the next Scs-
sion introduce a new bill or an amend
ment to the drug act of July II, 1917,
known as the ware Act" and pro-
sented in the Legislature by John Il.
X. Scott, TO enable the Judges of the
courts to deal with dope sellers more
, severely than is now possible.
Under the present act n fine of $4,000
and five years imprisonment may be
imposed for selling narcotic drugs, and
the same sentence for unlawfully hav-
ing the drugs. All indictments alleg-
ing sale of drugs also contain q
count for having II in possession, and
sentences may he imposed on both
counts in the Indictment, thus making
it possible for the Judges TO more Sc
verely punish the peddIers.
Judge Monaghan said he does not
! feel that such a sentence is sufficient N
| some cases and an opportunity should
| be given TO the Judges to deal more Sc
| verely when they feel it is necessary.
Six persons arrested on various
charges in connection with the drug
traffic were arraigncd today at Central
! Police Station.
Emma Wong, Lehigh avenue and
| Boudinot street. and wife of a China
man. was arrested yesterday while act =
ing suspiciously near Seventh and Vine
streets. Police surgeons who examined
her said she was suffering from drugs.
When placed among other prisoners
after being held in $1,000 bail. the
others chided her. One drug peddlei
shouted, You're not going TO squawk
on us, are you?"
"No," replied the woman. II have
been using it for seventeen years, and !
haven't told on any one yet,
Although charged with being ar
addict. Lulu Webster. well dresscG
girl, of Parrish and Hutchinson streets
was said TO be a peddler. She was ar,
rested yesterday in the Tenderloin BY
Patrolman Loradach and held in $1,000
bail for the Grand Jury.
Three other men charged with havins
drugs in their possession were arrested
NJ Seventh and Spring Garden streets
They are William Wright. Alber
Wharton and William O'Brien.
Drugs were found in Whartcn's rooms
as wen as some fake bottles which wer,
sold as the real thing to addicts, th'
police say.