Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1909 — USED FORGED PRESCRIPTIONS [ARTICLE]

USED FORGED PRESCRIPTIONS

Prisoner Says Law Ought Not to Deprive Him of Needed Drugs. Middletown, N. Y., Nov. s.—John R. Smith of Princeton, 111., is a prisoner charged with forgery in having signed the names of physicians to prescriptions he had filled. Smith argued in court that the law ought not to deprive him of drugs required to relieve pain caused by a malady from which he suffers chronically.