Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-25
WOMAN IS CHARGED:
WITH HAVING DRUGS.
Is Also Accused Of Forging
Prescriptions to Obtain
Narcotics.

Charged with forging 1913 narcotic
prescriptions since January last and
with unlawful possession of narcotics,
Mrs Carlton H. Waller Of the $500 block
of Thirteenth street was arrested after
calling at q drug store on Ninth street
this morning and later released on
bond, after a hearing before United
States Commissioner Needham c. Turn
age.
s. L. Rakusin. Federal narcotic in
spector, and Detective C. e. Mansfield,
who made the arrest, said that since
January Mrs. Waller had received a
total OF 1920 half-grain tablets of a
narcotic. She was charged with having
forged the name Of Dr. Stewart Nc
Bride Of Manassas, Va, to prescriptions
and was said to have obtained 40 half
grain tablets every day for the last
three months.
MRS. Waller, 40 years old, whose hus-
band Is an auditor for coal company.
pleaded not guilty to the charge OF
forgery.
Defendants Story.
She Is said to contend that the mar
cotics were prescribed for her by DR..
Mcbride and that tine prescriptions
were sent her through he mails. Ra-
kusin told Commissioner Turhage that
DR.. Mcbride told his office over the
telephone today that he had not pre-
scribed for Mrs. Waller since last
Mrs Waller made 81 900 bond and
the formal hearing was continued I'M
til Friday morning at 10 o'clock in Or
der that Federal narcotic inspectors
might have DR.. Mcbride. as a witness.
Mrs. Waller told officers. they said,
that she had used all the narcotics her
self. The Federal inspector expressed
amazement that the woman could use
40 half-grain tablets in day and told
Commissioner Turnaga that last jan
uary. when Mrs. Waller was first put
under arrest, she told police that she
was getting The prescriptions for, her
self and her mother.
Lived In Georgia.
Mrs. Waller is reported to have said
that use of the drug had resulted from
a tubercular condition of the knee, and
that DIR. Mcbride. whom she described
as an "old friend" had prescribed for
her for about IL years, S years in Wash
inston and previous to that time in
Savannah, Ga, where she said they
lived.
Mrs. Waller was placed under arrest
in January, when narcotic inspectors
noticed the large number OF prescrip-
lions in DR.. McBride's name. She was
released at that time, Detective Mans
field said. after an investigation, be-
cause of an inability to locate ID:
Mcbride The officers talked to McBrid:
over the telephone this morning, and
when he told them he had not pre-
scribed for Mrs. Waller in several
months they posted themselves at the
Ninth street drug store and then fol-
lowed Mrs. Waller to her residence.
When placed under arrest she had
on her person the 40 half-grain tablets
she had obtained this morning. She
said she had not purchased narcotics
from any other drug store since jan
uary and that she had been told to go
there by DR.. Mcbride. who, she said
explained that suspicion would not at
tach to her. 1t was said.
Mrs. Walters husband called at Com
missioner Turnage's ONCE this morning
shortly after his wife was taken there
from police headquarters and arranged
for bond. His only comment other
than to join with Mrs. Waller In deny
ing the charge of, forgery, was, This
will ruin us both.@