Crimes Committed While
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL MARIHUANA
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Crimes Committed While UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL MARIHUANA PART V |
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Name: Alcide Benoit / (Victim) Richard Hammond Date: Jan 22, 1937 Location: Michigan 
What the Narc's were claiming
Perhaps you remember the young desperado in Michigan who, a few months ago, caused a reign of terror by his career of burglaries and holdups, finally to be sent to prison for life after kidnapping a Michigan state policeman, killing him, then handcuffing him to the post of a rural mailbox. This young bandit was a marijuana fiend. -- American Magazine "Marijuana, Assassin of Youth" By H.J Anslinger - July 1937 In Michigan, a teen-age kid kidnapped a state policeman, killed him, and then handcuffed his body to a mailbox. -- TRUE STORY (Magazine) Dec. 1948 Then again, the case of the young desperado in Michigan who, a few months ago, caused a reign of terror by his career of burglaries and holdups, finally to be sent to prison for life after kidnapping a Michigan state policeman, killing him, then handcuffing him to the post of a rural mailbox. This young bandit was another marihuana fiend. -- INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DIGEST - Sep, 1937 In Michigan, a marijuana addict manacled a trooper to a mail post and put a bullet through his head. -- FORUM AND CENTURY - Jan. 1939 In Michigan, Alcide Benoit, after forty robberies and two murders, was accused during his trial for murder of having committed every one of his major crimes while under the influence of marijuana. In his murder of State Trooper Richard Hammond, Benoit knocked Hammond unconscious, fastened him to a post with his handcuffs, then calmly waited for him to regain consciousness before shooting him through the head -- COLLIER'S June 1949 In Michigan, a marijuana-crazed ex-convict manacled a state trooper to a rural mailbox and then shot him through the head. -- Narcotics: America's Peril by Will Oursler (1952) NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS: GETTYSBURG TIMES - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [S-Jan 22, 1937 pg. 2] (Picture of ALCIDE Frenchy" BENOIT) gore file [S-Jan 23, 1937 pg. 5] "Slayer of Trooper Sentenced to Life" Gore File [See Reefer Madness Newspaper Index pamphlet for more references] Name: - Tylczak Date: June 9, 1932 Location: Marquette State Prison Michigan [Not a Federal Gore File Case] What the Narc's were claiming "Sometime ago the silence of the state prison at Marquette, Michigan, was shattered by the sound of fusillade of pistol shots and an hour later a kindly prison doctor lay dead and beside him lay the trusty who had given his life trying to save his friend the doctor. An investigation developed that arms and ammunition had been smuggled into the prison in the false bottoms of herring containers and that the MARIHUANA from which Tylczak, the murderer of the doctor and trusty, had derived his demoniac courage, had also been smuggled into the prison." -- The pamphlet "the Drug Demon" 1940 Michigan. Some time ago some Marihuana was smuggled into the state prison at Marquette. At the same time a gain and ammunition were also Smuggled in. From the effects of the drug one prisoner named Tyczak, shot and killed the prison doctor and a trusty. -- Finger Print & Identification Magazine March 1938 pp3 A recent one-man riot in the Michigan State Prison at Marquette, staged by a prisoner named Tylczak, was due to marihuana and firearms smuggled into the prison. When the smoke from the gun of the marihuana-crazed prisoner cleared, the kindly prison doctor lay dead. Beside him was the body of a trusty who gave his life trying to protect his doctor friend. The gun, ammunition and marihuana had entered the prison in false bottoms of herring buckets. --- Inside Detective (magazine) Nov 1937 Some time ago the silence of the state prison at Marquette, Mich., was shattered by the sound of a fusillade of pistol shots. An hour later a kindly prison doctor lay dead and beside him lay the trusty who had given his life to save his friend, the doctor. --- An investigation developed that arms and ammunition had been smuggled into the prison in the false bottoms of herring containers. -- It was found further that the marihuana from which Tylezak, the murderer of the doctor and the trusty, had derived his demoniacal courage had also been smuggled into the prison. -- Denver Post - Feb 24, 1935 Sec 3 page 2 NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT HELENA (Daily) INDEPENDENT - Helena, Montana [S-Dec 1, 1933 pg. 2] "Open Season is On in Detroit" Tylczak - Gore File WISCONSIN RAPIDS DAILY TRIBUNE - Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin [S-June 9, 1932 pg. 1] "Indict 3 for Gun Smuggling" [See Reefer Madness Newspaper Index pamphlet for more references] Name: James Buchanan / Ida Koogle (victim) Date: June 30, 1948 Location: Cleveland, Ohio 
What the Narc's were claiming June 30, 1948 at Cleveland, Ohio, James Buchanan was arrested by police of that city for the murder of a 60-year-old East Cleveland widow. After questioning by Police detectives he admitted his participation in the crime and also accused an accomplice. Buchanan admitted having participated, during the previous 6 months in the brutal attack of 16 women for the purpose of robbing them of their money. He stated further he wanted the money to buy wine and reefers (marihuana cigarettes) which he would consume at the same time. Before venturing out to commit their atrocious crimes, Buchanan and his partner would fortify themselves with wine and marihuana. Buchanan was 24 years of age at the time of his arrest, married and the father of three children. --The Traffic in Opium and other dangerous drug 1940 Cleveland, Ohio. June 1948. James, Buchanan, who was arrested by police for the murder of a 60-year-old widow, admitted that he and an accomplice had participated in brutal attacks on 16 women for the purpose of robbing them of their money. He said he wanted the money to buy wine and reefers (marihuana cigarettes) which he consumed at the sum time. Before committing their atrocious crimes, Buchanan and his accomplice always fortified themselves with wine and marihuana. 1948 - M Murdered widow, 60 years old, with accomplice, to obtain money to buy more marihuana for both; confessed attacking and robbing 16 other women. ---"UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2* 1948 - M Negro, smoked marihuana before going out to commit various crimes including murder Mrs. I. Koogle. " Poor man's poison. " ---"UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 Cleveland, Ohio. 1948. James B., who was arrested by police for the murder of a sixty-year-old widow, admitted that he and an accomplice had participated in brutal attacks on sixteen women for the purpose of robbing them of their money. He said he wanted the money to buy wine and reefers which he consumed at the same time. Before committing their atrocious crimes, B. and his accomplice always fortified themselves with wine and marihuana. The TRAFFIC In NARCOTICS By H.J. Anslinger 1953 NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS: MANSFIELD NEWS JOURNAL [S-July 03, 1948 pg. 1] "Second Man Questioned in Murder" [S-July 07, 1948 pg. 1] "Koogle Case Suspects Will Face Grand Jury" ADVOCATE - Newark, Ohio [S-July 07, 1948 ] "Pair Held to Jury" LIMA NEWS [S-April 6, 1948 ] "Cleaners Check for Murder Clue" Name: Gregorio Salas Date: June 11, 1930 Location: El Paso, Texas What the Narc's were claiming Further, The Tulsa Tribune of June 11, 1930, carried the following article under an El Paso, Texas, date line, "Four men, including a deputy sheriff, were seriously injured last night by a Marihuana-crazed Mexican before the bullets of another officer killed him, as he charged this officer with a knife. The Mexican, Gregorio Salas, thirty, died after being shot through the body and both legs. H. S. Palmer, the deputy sheriff, was badly cut on the nose by a rock thrown by the Mexican." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY - May-June 1932/Mar-Apr 1933 NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT RENO EVENING GAZETTE [S-June 11, 1930 pg. 8] "Four are Hurt by Crazed Man" Name: - Howard Horn Date: Dec 13, 1936 Location: Columbus Ohio What the Narc's were claiming Columbus - Ohio - Police in Columbus, Ohio were called upon to investigate a disturbance on a public street, where a young man, Howard Horn, was menacing citizens with a pistol. The officer, while attempting to subdue Horn, was attacked by him and wounded three times. He was obliged to return the fire to save his own life 7 and Horn was killed instantly. Investigation by the vice squad showed that Horn, who was 19 years of age, was a marihuana addict and at the time of his attack on the officer was under the influence of this narcotic. -- The Traffic in Opium and Other Dangers Drugs (1936) Howard Horn, a young lad nineteen years of age, had acquired the marihuana habit while in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Except for certain peculiar actions, there was nothing to indicate to school or police authorities that Howard was a victim of this dread habit. But one day police were called upon to investigate a disturbance on a public street, and there they found Horn menacing passersby with a pistol. Just a kid, of course, but a kid's fingers, trembling on the trigger of a six-shooter, may cause a lot of injury and sorrow, especially if the brain directing those fingers has been "stepped up" to "high" with marihuana. The officer who attempted to subdue Horn was attacked by him and wounded three times. Forced to return the boy's fire in order to save himself and others, the officer killed Howard. Investigation by the vice squad showed that Horn was a marihuana addict and that at the time of his attack upon the officer he was suffering from marihuana madness. --- Moloch Of Marihuana (1945) Robert James Devine Howard Horn, a lad nineteen years of age, had acquired the marihuana habit while in high school in Columbus, Ohio. Except for certain peculiar actions, there was nothing to indicate to school or police authorities that Howard was a victim of this dread habit. But one day police were called upon to investigate a disturbance on a public street, and there they found Horn menacing passersby with a pistol. just a kid, of course, but kid's fingers trembling on the trigger of a six-shooter may cause a lot of injury and sorrow, especially if the brain directing those fingers has been "stepped up" to "high" with marihuana. The officer who attempted to subdue Horn was attacked by him and wounded three times. Forced to return the boy's fire in order to save himself and others, the officer killed Howard. Investigation by the vice squad showed that Horn was a marihuana addict and that at the time of his attack upon the officer he was suffering from marihuana madness. -- "Assassin of Youth" (Book) 1954 By Robert Devine Then there was the 19-year-old addict in Columbus, Ohio, who, when police responded to a disturbance complaint, opened fire upon an officer, wounding him three times, and was himself killed by the returning fire of the police. -- INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DIGEST - Sep, 1937 [Mr.] Heise enumerated the crimes within the city which have been attributed to "weed." He included a murder and the shooting spree of a young man finally ended by a policeman's bullet -- OHIO STATE JOURNAL Feb. 24, 1937 NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER: [e Dec. 13, 1936 - A1:4] "Killed by Patrolman Mansberger in gun fight, Columbus" Name: - Paul Gutierrez Date: Nov 1950 Location: Fresno Ca. 
What the Narc's were claiming 1950 Fresno, California - 25-year old Paul Gutierrez, Took 17-mo. old J. Yanez from auto, spanked her for crying, shoved her face into mud 200 feet from car, suffocated. Didn't know what happened until blood spots found on shoes and clothes next morning. Blamed marihuana and whisky. His counsel stated: " The real criminal in this case is marihuana." -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 1950 - P. Gutierrez, - M - 26 - Fresno, Calif. - Took 17-mo. J. Yanez from auto, spanked her for crying, shoved her face into mfud 200 ft. from car; suffocated. Didn't know what happened until blood spots found on shoes and clothes next morning. Blamed marihuana and whiskey. His counsel stated: "The real criminal in this case is marihuana." - Killed in gas chamber -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965 1967 -Took 17-month-old infant from auto, spanked her for crying, suffocated her by burying face in mud; while under influence of marijuana. Didn't know about it until next morning. -- The Truth about Marijuana - STEPPING STONE to DESTRUCTION June 1967 On a Saturday evening in November, 1945, a pretty seventeen-month-old baby girl was left in the family car while her parents went in search of a relative. When they returned to the car less than ten minutes later, the baby had disappeared. The next afternoon, scarcely 200 yards away, the body was found in the furrow of a cotton field. The baby was naked except for one small white shoe and a red-knitted bonnet. She bad been violated. Teeth marks covered her body. Her tiny contorted face had been shoved into the mud and particles of dirt in her lungs showed that she had been alive at the time and suffocated later. Police arrested a twenty-five-year-old cotton picker, Paul G., who readily admitted kidnapping the child and "spanking her a little bit." G. stated that on the Saturday evening in question he had been drinking when a friend offered him a reefer which he accepted and smoked. Further intoxicants followed. Then G. went to a dance hall, from which he departed because no one would dance with him in his condition. As he left, he heard the child crying in a car. Annoyed, he picked up the infant and spanked her, but remembers nothing further except he "guesses he just went crazy." His next recollection was when he came to in his cabin the following morning with mud and blood on his clothes. For what the district attorney described as "the most horrible, the most brutal crime in the history of the area," Paul G. was sentenced to death. The final words of his counsel are well worth remembering: "The real criminal in this case is marihuana!" -- NARCOTICS AND NARCOTICS ADDICTION by D.C. Parks 1969 Paul Gutierrez, 25 years of age, a cotton picker, held in the Fresno, Cal., county jail admitted having attacked a 17-month-old Huron, Cal., baby girl, Josephine Yanez. The little child was kidnapped from her parents' parked car, was criminally attacked and brutally killed, in what the police agreed was the most vicious murder in Fresno county history. The little one's battered body was found in a muddy field. Gutierrez, when arrested, admitted that he had "spanked" the child, but said he could remember nothing more than that, because his mind had blanked out after smoking a marihuana cigarette. No one is immune from attack when a brain is inflamed and stepped up on reefers. -- "Assassin of Youth" (Book) 1954 By Robert Devine On a Saturday evening in November, 1945, a pretty seventeenmonth-old baby girl was left in the family car while her parents went in search of a relative. When they returned to the car less than ten minutes later, the baby had disappeared. The next afternoon, scarcely 200 yards away, the body was found in the furrow of a cotton field. The baby was naked except for one small white shoe and a red-knitted bonnet. She had been violated. Teeth marks covered her body. Her tiny contorted face had been shoved into the mud and particles of dirt in her lungs showed that she had been alive at the time and suffocated later. -- Police arrested a twenty-five-year-old cotton picker, Paul G., who readily admitted kidnapping the child and "spanking her a little bit." G. stated that on the Saturday evening in question he had been drinking when a friend offered him a reefer which he accepted and smoked. Further intoxicants followed. Then G. went to a dance hall, from which he departed because no one would dance with him in his condition. As he left, he heard the child crying in a car. Annoyed, he picked up the infant and spanked her, but remembers nothing further except he "guesses he just went crazy." His next recollection was when he came to in his cabin the following morning with mud and blood on his clothes. -- For what the district attorney described as "the most horrible, the most brutal crime in the history of the area," Paul G. was sentenced to death. The final words of his counsel are well worth remembering: The real criminal in this case is marihuana !" -- THE TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS By H.J. Anslinger and William F. Tompkins 1953 Paul Gutierrez, 25 years of age, a cotton picker, held in the Fresno, Cal., county jail admitted having attacked a 17-month-old Huron, Cal., baby girl, Josephine Yanez. The little child was kidnapped from her parents' parked car, was criminally attacked and brutally killed, in what the police agreed was the most vicious murder in Fresno county history. The little one's battered body was found in a muddy field. Gutierrez, when arrested, admitted that he had "spanked" the child, but said he could remember nothing more than that, because his mind had blanked out after smoking a marihuana cigarette. No one is immune from attack when a brain is inflamed and stepped up on reefers. -- "The Assassin of Youth" -- The Moloch of Marihuana (1945) By Robert James Devine NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT(S) SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE [e Nov 22, 1949 pg. 1] "Kidnap Confessed - Fresno Baby Rape Suspect Talks" [e Nov 23, 1949 pg. 1] "Murder Charge Filed in Rape-Slaying of Baby Girl" [e Nov 24, 1949 pg. 13] "Raped Child Buried" [e Nov 26, 1949 pg. 2] "Child-Slaying Suspect's Hearing Set" [e Nov 27, 1949 pg. TW3] "California, "I Don't Know Why" [e Nov 30, 1949 pg. 11] "Gutierrez Is Charged With Rape-Murder" [e Dec. 15, 1949 pg. 16] "Gutierrez Pleads Innocent In Baby Killing, Waives Jury" [e Dec. 21, 1949 pg. 2] "Baby Rape Trial Opens In Fresno" [e Dec. 22, 1949 pg. 24] "Baby Rapist to Die" [e Dec. 24, 1949 pg. 17] "I Did It,' Cries Fresno Rape Slayer" [e Dec. 28, 1949 pg. 3] "Gutierrez to Die for Baby Rape-Murder" SAN JOSE MERCURY: [-- Nov. 22, 1949 pg. 1 "Man Charged With Murder of Yanez Baby - Cotton Picker, 25, Booked for Killing, Ravishing Infant [**]- Nov. 23, 1949 - pg. 1 - "Suspect in Murder of Infant Faces Court; Preliminary Set" SAN FRANCISCO CALL BULLETIN [**]- Nov. 22, 1949 pp 1 - Guard Girl Slaying Suspect In Fresno [**]- Nov. 23, 1947 pp 3 - Suspect Resigned To Fate in Girl Slaying" [**]- Nov. 24, 1949 pp 7 "Reveal Slaying Suspect is Dad" [**]- Nov. 29, 1947 pp 6 - Gutierrez In Court Today SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER: [**]- Nov 22, 1949 pp 1 - Youth Admits Fatal Kidnap of Fresno Tot [e]- Nov 23, 1949 pp 7 - Fresno Baby Murder Suspect Faces Court [e]- Nov 24, 1949 pp 23 - Second Charge Against Killer of Fresno Baby [e]- Nov 26, 1949 pp 6 - Teeth Tests In Slaying [**]- Nov 27, 1949 pp 10 - Five Jailed in Oakland marijuana Ring Raid. [e]- Dec. 22, 1949 pp 5 - Cotton Picker Guilty of Slaying Infant Girl [See Reefer Madness Newspaper Index pamphlet for more references] Name: Albert Dyer (Eddie the sailor) Date: June 1937 Location: Inglewood Ca. 
What the Narc's were claiming In Inglewood, California, a crazed sailor attacked three girls, each under twelve years of age. -- TRUE STORY (Magazine) Dec. 1948 Some of the brutal and unspeakable sex crimes of recent years have had their cause in marihuana. In Inglewood, California, recently, three little girls, all under twelve years of age, were fiendishly attacked and killed by an ex-sailor - a marihuana fiend. The horrible, sadistic attacks upon girls, even upon children, are sometimes inspired by this drug. -- On the Trail of Marihuana the Weed of Madness (1939) By Earle Rowell NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS Edwardsville Intelligencer [S-July 1, 1937 pg. 2] "Continue Hunt For Slayer of Girls" Chronicle Telegram [S-June 29, 1937 pg. 1] "Three Little Girls are Found Slain" Harmmon Times [S-July 2, 1937 pg. 4] "Civilians and Police hunt Girls' Slayer" [S-Aug. 14, 1937 pg. 2] "Child Witness Traps Slayer of Three Girls" Nevada State Journal [S-July 5, 1937 pg. 1] "Stranger Jailed for slaying of California" Reno Evening Gazette [S-June 28, 1937 pg. 1] "Children Missing From Home and Foul Play is Feared"
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