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Philip Sorahan - Marihuana Addict
NOT A FEDERAL REEFER MADNESS CASE
What the Narc’s were claiming
From Sacramento, California, comes the story of a 20-year-old-girt mother who sobbed out to police a tragic story of how her husband, crazed with narcotics, forced her to help him in a career of crime. The girl, a former nurse, is Mrs. Ruth Sorahan, an attractive wisp of a blonde, who was arrested as she stepped from a train in Sacramento last month. Her husband is Philip Sorahan under arrest in San Jose for a series of burglaries which, according to Mrs. Sorahan, encompassed the entire San Francisco Bay region. The girl sobbed: "Philip was a good husband until he started to use marihuana. We were happily married, and both looked forward eagerly to the birth of our first child. -- "Then some one got him smoking marihuana. Over night he changed. From then on he seemed like a stranger. He lost his job, and when our savings ran out, he started to steal to get more money to buy the dope." -- Her story, punctuated by wracking sobs, told how Philip was alternately hysterically gay and inhumanly cruel. She continued: "He would beat me until I fainted from pain. He threatened to kill me if I didn't help him dispose of the things he stole. In fear of my life, I would take them to a pawn shop. Philip would go into insane rages when I failed to get what he thought was a good price for the things." --- - SAN FRANCISCO POLICE AND PEACE OFFICER’ JOURNAL (of the State of California) – May 1934 pg. 29 - MARIHUANA AND CRIME
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
Oakland Tribune
[** Dec. 15, 1933] "Addict Burglar's Wife, Aid, Set Free
[** Jan. 13, 1934] "Brothers Sentenced On Burglary Charge"
[** Mar. 15, 1938] "Suspect Is Arrested for Burglary"
[** Mar. 18, 1938] Napa Suspect Faces More Crime Probes"
[** Mar. 19, 1938] "Felon Escapes From Napa Jail"
[** Mar. 22, 1938] "Napa jail Escape Caught"
[** Mar. 29, 1938] "Burglar Suspect To Face Sentence”
[** Apr. 1, 1938] "Jail breaker Given Life"
[** Mar. 21, 1938 - "Jail Escape Spurs Drive For Building"
[Key-finder - Case#CA17NoneGoreFile]
SAN QUENTIN PRISON RECORDS:
Philip Sorahan -- aliases Buford Leonard
San Quentin Prison ID = 55320
MUSEUM COMMENTARY:
Not much is known about this guy, but boy was he a total looser! Also, he sure made it into the newspapers back than.
Prison documents – Courtesy of www.ancestery.com
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