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November 2, 2025 W. B. SLOAN, DRUGGIST, IN JAIL.
With Forty Indictments Against Him He Was a Fugitive.
William B. Sloan, a druggist at Ninth street and Brighton avenue, against whom the grand jury in the criminal court returned forty indictments three weeks ago, was arrested last night by Martin Roos, a deputy county marshal. After the indictments were returned against him for selling liquor on Sunday, Sloan went to the home of his father at 50 Clifton street, Kansas City, Kas. A fugitive warrant had been issued by the Kansas authorities and preparations had been made to extradite Sloan when he returned to Missouri and remained in hiding. He was taken to the county jail last night and will remain there until released on bond.
Sloan has been fined in police court several times for selling liquor illegally. Each case was appealed to the criminal court, where only one case has been tried. In that case a jury fined him $500 and it is now on appeal to the Kansas City court of appeals.Labels: Brighton avenue, druggist, jail, Ninth street September 29, 2025 ROBS A DRUG STORE.
Masked Robber Terrifies Occupants and Gets $125 From Cash Register.
R. E. Slaughter, a clerk, and Miss Will Mowrey, cashier in the E. H. Dudley drug store, 5200 St. John avenue, were "held up" at the point of a revolver by a masked man last night at 10 o'clock and $125 was taken from the cash register. The robber escaped.
The man was driving a sorrel horse hitched to a buggy. He tied the horse in front of the drug store. He was wearing a white mask when he drove up. When he entered the store the clerk and the cashier were alone. He pointed the revolver at Slaughter and said:
"I want the money in the cash register and quick." He went behind the showcase and to the register, which he opened, while he kept Slaughter "covered" with the revolver. There was just $125 there. He took all of it. Then he backed out of the store pointing the revolver at Slaughter as he retreated. While he was untying the horse, Slaughter secured a revolver and stepped out onto the street, aimed at the robber and snapped the weapon several times. The cartridges failed to explode. The robber rode away unmolested. The police were notified immediately.Labels: crime, druggist, St John avenue August 22, 2025 ONE WAY TO OBTAIN MORPHINE.
Headache Prescription That Contains One-Seventh of a Grain.
A Troost avenue druggist was approached yesterday morning by a woman with a prescription for headache.
"I have had headache for many years, but not until I began taking these powders did I secure relief," the woman said. "O, they are just fine -- a dozen powders, please."
The clerk passed behind the prescription case with the slip of paper.
He read thereon among other ingredients a demand for one-seventh of a grain of morphine to each powder. His first impulse was to decline to fill the prescription, but then he happpened to think that she was an educated woman and could read as well as he.
"I am not surprised, madame, that your headaches are relieved by this remedy," almost tremulously rejoined the druggist as he handed the woman her package and took a coin.
"My husband sometimes takes them, too, but baby is scarcely old enough to have a headache. When she does, though, you bet she must take them like the rest of us," declared the woman.
"Poor baby," sighed the druggist.Labels: druggist, narcotics, Troost avenue August 21, 2025 GOT COCAINE AT STREIGLE'S.
So Reported the Police and a Drug- gist's Arrest Followed.
On account of the testimony of a cocaine user in police court recently an order was made to see how easily cocaine could be bought from a drug store owned by Bert Streigle, at 125 West Fifth street. A policeman in plain clothes reported that he had bought some of the drug there and the following day in inspctor from the license inspector's office reported taht he, too, had no trouble in getting any quantity of "coke."
Judge Kyle yesterday ordered a warrant for Streigle's arrest and required a cash bond of $500. Streigle has been in police court before on similar charges, at one time receiving a fine of $500.Labels: druggist, Fifth street, Judge Kyle, narcotics, police court July 25, 2025 DRUGGISTS OPPOSE IT
SAY LAPP'S ORDINANCE IS TO GIVE DOCTORS JOBS.
Import of the Measure Is to Require Prescriptions for Sale of Opium, Cocaine or Any of Its Preparations.
"That ordinance is evidently intended to make business for young doctors who have but little practice under the guise of making it impossible for people to buy opium, cocaine or any of its preparations," declared a delegation of druggists that visited the city hall yesterday to protest against the passage of Dr. J. G. Lapp's ordinance regulating the sale of these drugs.
Alderman Lapp, the author of the ordinance, is a physician and in defense of his measure says it is the only way that the sale of opium and cocaine can be checked.
The ordinance provides that no druggist nor pharmacist or any other person shall offer for sale opium or any of its preparations, except upon the written prescription of a regularly licensed practicing physician.
"Should the ordinance become effective," declared a druggist, "it would be impossible for a person in an emergency to get a little laudanum for a sick person without first hunting up a doctor and paying him a dollar to write a prescription. If this isn't an imposition I do not know what else it can be termed. There are other preparations from opium that are a family medicinal necessity, and to ask its users to pay $1 to a doctor every time they want a prescription filled is an outrage."
The ordinance stipulates that no prescriptions for opium or any of its preparations, excepting Dover's powder or paregoric, shall be refilled.
The penalty for a violation of the ordinance is a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $500.
Alderman Lap says that he has been induced to present this ordinance on account of the many evils growing out of the unrestricted sale of opium and its preparations by druggists. He claims that it is not a shaft at the better class of pharmacists, but at those whose principal stock in trade is opium and cocaine, and who make a pretense of conducting drug stores. He feels, he says, that no legitimate druggist would be in any wise injured by the enforcement of the ordinance. The doctor may yet amend the ordinance so as not to prohibit the sale of laudanum in small quantities without a written prescription.
The druggists also call attention to the fact that there are many patent medicines that contain opium or the preparations thereof, and they represent that if the Lapp ordinance becomes a law they will be prevented from selling these medicines without a prescription.Labels: doctors, druggist, health, narcotics July 8, 2025 A DRUG CLERK ARRESTED.
Clarence Moreland, Alias Davidson, Wanted for Jail-Breaking.
Clarance Moreland, known here as Clarence Davidson, was arrested last night by Deputy County Marshals Morgan and Siegfried, on a warrant from Tazewell, Ill., charging him with escaping from jail there July 13, 1905, and at the same time liberating three other prisoners.
Moreland is a registered pharmacist and has been employed in local drug stores for nearly a year, having come to this city directly after his escape. He was arrested in a drug store where he was empoyed, near Fifth street and Broadway. He is said to have led an exemplary life during his residence in Kansas City.Labels: Broadway, druggist, Fifth street, jail May 16, 2025 HAD VIOLATED HIS PROMISE.
Druggist Who Sold Cocaine Fined $250 in Police Court
When the "Black Maria" was being loaded at police headquarters yesterday with its daily load of prisoners for the workhouse there was one figure among the rollicking, happy-go-lucky crowd that attracted more than usual attention. It was that of a tall and aged man, his hair as white as the snow. He used a cane to feel his way up the steps and his high power glasses signified bad eyesight. Attendants had to assist the man into the wagon.
The unusual figure was that of H. B. Sargent, 70 years old, druggist at 1901 Grand avenue. He had pleaded guilty in police court to selling cocaine to J. M. Watkins, a user of the drug, living at 2127 Terrace street, and had been fined $250. Watkins, who was fined $100 on a vagrancy charge and sent to the general hospital for treatment, testified against Sargent. Mr. Sargent has a wife living at 3021 Oak street. There are no children. He said he was not able to give a $500 appeal bond.
Not many months ago the same aged white-haired man stood in police court charged with the same offense -- selling cocaine. The case was a clear one, but the court was lenient on account of the man's age and the oath he took. Raising his right hand high above his head he said in a trembling voice:
"Judge, I swear as I hope for mercy from my God that I will sell no more cocaine so long as I may live. I will not even keep it in my store. If there is any found there on my return I will cast it in the street."
Mr. Sargent was asked of that oath yesterday before he was taken away. "I made such an oath," he said, "and it was my intention to keep it. But there are two ways of looking at this thing. Here come a man and or a woman into my store. The eyes are wild and sunken, the face wan, drawn, and dreadfully pale. The form trembles as a leaf in a storm. They are too weak almost to stand. Cocaine is the only thing that will relieve them. Death might follow if they did not get it. I never put them in that shape, I know I didn't, but what am I to do?"
On account of Sargent's age efforts will be made to secure his release from the workhouse.Labels: druggist, Grand avenue, narcotics, police court, Seniors, Terrace street, workhouse |
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