Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — DR. GRAHAM ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]
DR. GRAHAM ARRESTED.
Charged With Practicing Medicine Without a License. Dr. W. D. Graham, the traveling optician, was arrested Tuesday on the charge of praoMoing medicine without a license. The basis for the proseoution Is an advertisement in which Graham claims to have relieved and cured several oases of Bick and nervous headache, female troubles, asthma, oonstipatlon and stomach trouble. An act passed by the last legislature prohibits others than licensed physioians from advertising to cure diseases and It is under this law that the arrest was made. The case was set for trial yesterday afternoon and Graham was allowed to go on his own reoognlzanoe, but yesterday he took the 9:66 train and disappeared. Should he make his reappearance here at any time he will be arrested as an esoaped prisoner.
