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Only vac coffee can retain | ~Have the Police the Right to Supply Drugs to An Addict There are many angles to some of the recent cases in the North Land where medical men were charged with supplying narcotiec drugs to an addict, the addict being used as a ‘‘special agent‘‘ by the Royal Canaâ€" dian Mounted Police. Last week The Advance quoted from the evidence in one «ease to show the type of man used as a ‘‘special agent.‘‘ Along with the article The Advinee could not forbear using the heading, *‘ What Does the North Think of This Type of Law Enforcement?""‘ A similar question might be used as a heading for the present article which will quote the official evidence in regard to another phase of the matter,â€"the supplying of drugs by the police to the addict. Here are some of answers :â€"â€" Questionâ€"You were let out of jail on or about August 4th, because you were in Ansonville on the 5th. When was the first time Mr. Miller gave you any drugs? Answerâ€"I can‘t reâ€" Qâ€"Did he give you any that day? Aâ€"Oh. yes! _ _ s J Qâ€"What did he give you? morphine. . s o2 aw Hypodermically. Q@â€"Did he give you any the followâ€" ing day. Aâ€"Yes. (@â€"He has given it to you every day since? Aâ€"Yes. (Qâ€"Has he given you any toâ€"day? Aâ€"Very little. I get it every day. (Qâ€"What time did he give it to you? Aâ€"I can‘t recall. Qâ€"Was it this morning or this afternoon? Aâ€"It was this morning. How much did he give you? Aâ€"I don‘t know. ()â€"He has given you drugs every day since Aug. 4th. Aâ€"Yes. Q@â€"Has Mr. Miller ever taken you to a doctor? Aâ€"Yes. Qâ€"-â€"\Vhen? Aâ€"He has taken me different times. (Qâ€"Mr Miller, I suppose, keeps you off your drugs for a few hours or a day or so before you go to try to make a purchase? Aâ€" He does not. Mr. Dean Kester, counsel for Dr. Day, crossâ€"examining the *‘special agent‘‘:â€" s Qâ€"On or about when? _ Was it shortly after you went out of jail? Aâ€"Yes. f (Qâ€"Does he give them fore you go in? Aâ€"He to me when it is time for them. Q_\;eStionâ€"â€"-â€"You are a Detective Conâ€" stable of the Royal Canadian Mountâ€" ed Police?â€"Answerâ€"Yes. ; _Q-â€"-â€"Wbrking for the Department of Health, under the Narcotic Drug Seeâ€" tior? Aâ€"Yes. Q;â€"Sifice Afigust 5th, I understand, you have been using the last witness Fraser, as an operator? Aâ€"LI have. 288. 4 2 s Qâ€"Will you tell us what happened en Oct. 5th, commencing from the time you prepared to leave Timmins? Aâ€"Previous to Oct. 5th, I was sent to Timmins to see this man and try to endeavour to get from him where he was making his purchase of drugs in this part of the country. When 1 arrived here I had a few conversaâ€" tions with him; the result was I teleâ€" vraphed, to Ottawa and stated that this man was an addict, and asked whether they wanted me to go ahead and use him. 1 received a reply to =o abhead. Qâ€"What doctor.? Aâ€"Dt. Laframâ€" boise, Ottawa. ”Qâ€"â€"VHad he given you drugs before he took you to Dr. Laframboise? Aâ€" I don‘t know whether he did or not. There were the following questions and answers in the examination by Mr. Gauthier of Constable Paul H. Miller :â€" How Do the People of Ontario Like This Plan of Proceâ€" dure? Is it in Keeping with the Theory of Their Own Medical Experts? Qâ€"Without going into all those deâ€" tails, what did you do after picking him up on August 5th2â€"Where did Â¥you take him? Aâ€"I had him various plaees between here and North Bay. I arrived in Ottawa on the 9th. Election of Officers, annual reports and other business. Members are asked to turn seription books by this datfe. Rideau Hall COFFEE FRIDAY, JANUARY 14th 1927 at 8 p.m. Annual Meeting How did you take it? _ Aâ€" In the Town Hall °C Only vacuum packed * ee can retain the delightful aroma which you enjoy when using :s the questions and to you beâ€" gives them me to have (Qâ€"Have you a license from the Minister of Health? I suppose it makes no difference. Will you answer that? â€"Aâ€"I would not like to answer that question. It does not make any difference to me. I would not care to answer that. I will say that I was turned over this man, and he was turned over to the doctor. I was to act as his nurse. I feel confident I can handle him. Q@â€"How do you pay I raser? Aâ€" There is no set way of paying him. When he left here on August 5th there was no arrangement or agreeâ€" ment made. The Department has a way. There is a schedule that runs so much per case, that does not count convictions; it depends on the imporâ€" tamce of the case or what the case is like ; if it is a trafficker, etc., there is no certain amount set for any one individual case. There is a schedule they run on. (Qâ€"The more cases he gets the more money he makes out of it, and he gets his expenses besides? _ Aâ€"Yes, and the opportunity of going through a cure when he is through. Qâ€"He is going through in your hands? â€" Aâ€"If I enough I will get him well. (Qâ€"What did you do there? Aâ€"I went down to the Health Dept., and saw Dr. Amyot, Deputy Minister of Health, and explained the cirecumâ€" stances to him. He instructed me to take this man before our Royal Canaâ€" dian Mounted Police physician and have him put under his care, and arâ€" rangements made to have me act as his attendant, and to use him in an endeavour to clear up â€"any places where nareotic drugs could be purâ€" chased in Northern Ontario. (Qâ€"Have you a license from the Minister of Health to hand drugs out to addicts? Mr. Gauthierâ€"IL object to that question. Magistrate Atkinâ€" sonâ€"I am instructing that if there is anything liable to incriminate him, he does not have to answer. You can ask him to see what he will say. Question by Magistrate Atkinson to Dr. â€"Porterâ€"You have had experience with drug addicts? Answerâ€"Not a deal in the line of treatment. 1 have had it (morphine) stolen from me. Mr. Kester questioning Constable Miller recalled in rebuttal. ~Question â€"At what time would you give him shots, say November 13th? Aâ€"I arâ€" ranged my shots about four times a day; one in the morning; one in the evening and hbefore going to bed,â€" all depending on cireumstances. L (Qâ€"Dr. Laframboise examined this man? â€"Aâ€"Yes. (Qâ€"And since this time he has been under treatment by the doctor in your charge? Aâ€"Yes, I have been looking after him ever since. Question by Magistrate Atkinsonâ€" You have been giving him drugs unâ€" der their instructions? Aâ€"Yes. I have endeavoured to cut him down to where I could handle him. Mr. Kester questioned Constable Miller :â€" (Qâ€"Where did you get your nursing experience? â€"I have had five years of this work. the â€"cure gzet time Dr. John Elliott, a witness for the prosecution, when examined by Mr. Kester, differed with the opinion exâ€" pressed by local doetors that Dr. Day‘s treatment had been the proper one. He did not believe that it was necesâ€" sary to wean an addict gradually from drugs. He said the new method was to put them in an institution and cut them off at onee from the drug. (Q@â€"A medical man sends him to that institution, and he is in the state [ describe, in a state of wollapse, what is the first thing they will do for him? Aâ€"You will have to find out from them. 1 eould not tell you. Mr. Atkinson asked, ‘‘Could you tell me what justifiee Dr. Lafamâ€" boise to feed this man Fraser morâ€" phine four times a day? Aâ€"That is difficult for me to say. 1 say some medical men believe in slow and graâ€" dual diminishing it, and others more prompt. I haven‘t any idea why Dr. Laframboise is having this man treatâ€" ed periodically and reducing it. 1 suppose his belief is in the slow and geradual reduction of it. It is difficult to reach a conclusion in the matter with the prosecution‘s own witnesses and experts at such variance. Drs. Elliott and Johns all for taking all drugs away from the addicts at once, and Dr. Laframboise apparently of anotherm school of thought. Still more mn?fusing is the apparent idea that a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer may administer or supply drugs to an addict to use him as a special agent or operator, or whatever name may please one. But a doctor, believing a patient to be about to collapse evidently lays himâ€" self open to prosecution should he beâ€" lieve the administration of drugs neâ€" cessary. _ If this is the attitude of the law, the public should know it. That is why The Advance has given such space and prominence to the matter. The Advance believes that very vital principles are at stake, and that if the matter is allowed to pass unnoticed not only the medical profession but the public in gengral will have serious cause for regret. The Advance is glad to hear that Mr. Jos. Bradette, M.P., for Cochrane Riding, intends to bring this matter to the attention of the House of Commons. Dr. P. C. Johns, of Toronto, anâ€" other witness for the prosecution folâ€" lowed along the same lines as Dr. Elliott. He did not think, however, that a doctor should be condemned for his treatment, if he were entirely conâ€" scientious. If you‘re going to ride in the good old boat, just grab a paddle and pull ; don‘t stand around by your desk and mine, throwing a line of bull. You may not like the way things are runâ€" don‘t holler it far and wide; if you can‘t help paddle the old canoe. then don‘t expect to ride. The captains may pull some bonehead plays. I‘ve found they sometimes do, but it don‘t help them if you criticiseâ€"just make a suggestion or two.â€"Exchange. The young lad applied for a situaâ€" tion in the accounting department. Bert Mobbs asked him if he was in the habit of drinking, smoking, swearâ€" ing or running round late at nights. His answer was: ‘‘No, but I can learn."‘‘ THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Because he had crawled out on thin ice and rescued a playmate who had broken through, little Willie was the center of a group of admiring men and women. _ ‘<I had to,"‘‘ was the breathless anâ€" swer ‘‘He had my skates on.‘‘ "Dad, what is bankruptcey ?"‘ ‘‘Bankruptcey, my son, is when you put your money in your hip pocket, and let your ecreditors take your coat."‘ ‘*‘Tell us, my boy, how. you were brave enough to risk your life to save your friend,‘" said one of the ladies. FREE! This Week Only BACHELORS‘ NIGHT FRIDAY AT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY On Friday evening of this week (toâ€"merrow) the regular meeting of the Caledonian Society in the Holâ€" linger hall will be Bachelors‘ Night. A very attractive programme has been prepared, the event being under the management of the bachelors of the society. who on previous occasions have shown how pleasant an evening they can provide. MR. J. BRADETTE. M.P., BUSY IN INTERESTS OF RIDING » Mr. Joseph Bradette, M.P. for this riding, was in Timmins this week on business connected with his representâ€" ation of the constituency in the House of Commons. Mr. Bradette appears to be taking his duties in earnest, and is evidently sincere in his efforts to do everything possible for all parts of ‘his riding. Mr. Bradette has alâ€" ready taken up at Ottawa the question of a new post office for Timmins. He has also in mind the need for a dock at the Mattagami Landing. This does not mean that he is centering on material affairs for it is equally true that he has been â€" urgent and active in seeking to protect the peoâ€" ple in other ways. He has taken up the matter of the recent cases against medical men in the North Land for the alleged idegal supplying of narcoâ€" tic drugs to an addict used as a **speâ€" cial agent.‘‘ Mr. Bradette has enterâ€" ed strong protest against any attempt to use the method of inducing proâ€" fessional men to apparently break the law and then trying to brand them as lawâ€"breakers. Mr. Bradette has a vyery wide knowledge of this North Land from his long residenee and his intimate connection with public atâ€" fairs, and he naturally scoffs at the idea that there is any traffic in drugs in the.smaller communities of the disâ€" triect. As he points out, such an idea is absurd. Why then. he asks, should attempt ‘he made to fasten any such reputation on the district through the activities of any drug addicts as ‘‘special agents‘‘ here? It is a quesâ€" tion that will} be generally asked, and unless there is satisfactory reply it is one that Mr. Bradette will ask on the floor of the House. In his efforts for the advantage of this constitueney. or other matters, Mr. Bradette should receive the hearty support and coâ€"operation of all, whether they supported him in the recent election or not. He is showing that he is the Member for this riding. working for the interests of the peoâ€" ple and so should have the coâ€"operaâ€" tion of all in any good work he may inaugurate. (/Rev. Charles W. Gordon, a noted anadian preacher, and with more than national fame as an author, writâ€" ing under the pen name of ‘*Ralph Connor,"‘‘ is at Cabalt this week conâ€" ducting a mission in the United Church there, meetings being held each evening. NOTED CANADIAN WRITER | _‘ â€"â€"AT COBALT THIS WEEK Mouse. ‘# «tA fl/.figfffggffififfgffffiggffgfgg Cola listen ? A. Habib V. M. Bowie Co. No, ‘ow do vou Have you read OU can‘t "get off on the wrong foot" if you‘re wearing a rubber like this. JNORTMERN:: means the best. We carry the complete line THE â€"rubbers, overshoes, workâ€" DR"’"ER boots. 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