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DURING THE REEFER MADNESS ERA
THE LEON JASPER CASE
Treasury Department
Bureau of Narcotics
New York, N.Y.
Officer of District Supervisor
District No. 2
State of New York
November 25, 1939.
In re: Leon Jasper
Commissioner of Narcotics,
Tower Building,
14th & K Streets, N. W.,
Washington, D.C.
Sir:-
With reference to your letter of November 16, 1939 regarding Leon Jasper, I am enclosing herewith, in duplicate, copy of a report submitted by Narcotic Agent John J. McGrath, dated November 20, 1939, relative to his investigation of this individual, and which is self-explanatory.
Respectfully,
Jno. Q. Walton, Jur,
Acting District Supervisor.
January 12, 1940. Copy of above enclosure to Mr. Fuller’s office, at their request. JHR
Treasury Department
Bureau of Narcotics
New York, N.Y.
Officer of District Supervisor
District No. 2
State of New York
3/18/12 – As Leon Jasper, Dallas, Texas – Theft of auto – sentenced to 2 years;
10/17/16 – As Leon Jasper, Dallas, Texas – Manslaughter, sentenced to 5 years, State Penitentiary – Huntsville, Tex.
The description of Leon Jasper is as follows:
Colored; single; 44 years of age; height 6’ 2”; Weight, 150 pounds; flat nose; scar on left check and left nostril.
On November 21, 1939, the writer visited Dr. H. Dermon, Assistant Physician at Tombs city Prison, who informed me that from his physical examination of this individual on November 11, 1939, there were no outward signs of subject being addicted to Marihuana smoking; that instead, in the doctor’s opinion, Jasper has a persecution complex of one “Sam” wanting to rob him, and that the subject was certain that “Sam” was near him in the City Prison.
After my interview with Dr. Dermon, thru permission of the Tombs Warden, I contacted subject, Leon Jasper, who still appeared to think “Sam”2 was persecuting him. He gave as his reason fro attacking Mr. Emery L. Bryan of Roslyn with a hatchet on the night in question on the subway train, that he thought Bryan was harboring “Sam”, The subject denied that he ever told Detective Riggs at the time of his arrest that he was under the influence of Marihuana. Subject further reiterated to the Investigating Officer that the only time he smoked Marihuana cigarettes was when he was a cotton picker around the Mexican border in 1909, further, that he then smoked marihuana cigarettes occasionally, with some Mexicans.
The subject in question was confined in the Tombs Prison from November 11, 1939 until the interview of the investigating officer with him. The investigating officer concurs in the opinion of the Prison Physician relative to this subject, in that subject is suffering from a persecution complex.
Respectfully,
Jno. J. McGrath
Narcotic Agent
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