Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Young Victim of Cocaine Spent Three Nights at Jail. [ARTICLE]

Young Victim of Cocaine Spent Three Nights at Jail.

Sheriff McColly harbored three weary travelers again last night. This has been a quite common thing for several weeks andsomeof the travelers are the real “Weary Willie” sort. For three nights he kept a young fellow who was a victim of the cocaine habit. Apparently the man was not much past 21 years of age." He Was short and of muscular build, but a terrible slave to the drug habit; He claimed to have been operated on in a New York hospital and to have learned the use of the drug there. He was aible to procure the drug here, he said. Sheriff McColly had the drug taken away from him, but he made ■such a fuss that it was finally given to him again. He told a pitiable story about the prejudice the public had for a fellow, “just because he uses a drug.” The sheriff gave him a good lecturing and told him that he could not make a regular lodging place >ut -of the jail and Thursday had Marshal Shesler see that he left town.