Crimes Committed While
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL MARIHUANA
PART VII
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Crimes Committed While UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL MARIHUANA PART VII |
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Name: Eleutero Gonzales Date: Sep 11, 1940 Location: DEL Rio, TEXAS 
What the Narc's were claiming TEXAS - Sep 11, 1940 ---DEL Rio, TEXAS. September 1940. One Eleutero Gonzales, allegedly while under the influence of marihuana, shot to death two women and then committed suicide by literally slicing himself to bits about the abdomen, around the heart and throat, in a manner which indicated that he was bereft of all reasoning. Law enforcement officers believed that Gonzales was under the influence of marihuana at the time of the double murder and suicide, and that he had previously used marihuana. It was the opinion of the doctor who saw Gonzales just before he died that no one could so mutilate himself unless he was unable to feel "shock" and the only thing he knew that would produce such a condition, to such a degree, is marihuana. Gonzales had wandered around in the fields for hours after the killing and after his self-mutilation. -- MARIHUANA; The New Dangerous Drug (pamphlet) by Frederick T. Merrill 1950 version Murdered sweetheart and friend, then stabbed self in throat, stomach and heart after marijuana binge. -- The Truth about Marijuana - STEPPING STONE to DESTRUCTION June 1967 1940 Del Rio, Texas - Male 30 Shot and murdered his 34-year old sweetheart, A. Antonia, also M. Gomez, nurse. Then inflicted stab wounds his throat, stomach, intestines, heart, genitalia. He had previously committed rape on 12-year old girl, and was free on bail awaiting new trial. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 1940 - E. Gonzales - Del Rio, Texas - 30 - Shot and murdered his 34-yr. sweetheart, A. Antonia, also M. Gomez, nurse. Then inflicted stab wounds his throat, stomach, intestines, heart, genitalia. He had previously committed rape on 12-yr. girl, and was free on bail awaiting new trial. - Death -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965 A man in Texas got "high" on marijuana recently and raped a twelve-year-old girl Out on bail, he "twisted" himself a couple of Indian sticks. Before he was picked up in the street, he had taken a long knife and slashed two gentle ladies to death. Then he turned the blade on himself, hacking his vitals apart until he died writhing in the blood and bits of his own body. -- TRUE STORY (Magazine) Dec. 1948 [e Sept. 1940] - Eleutero Gonzalez murder case. Note 1 star reefer madness rating, the article is quoted else-where, but when one reads it, it only states that he killings could have been committed because of marihuana and nothing else. -- SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS MAGAZINE Del Rio, Texas. 1940. One Eleutero G. while allegedly under the influence of marihuana, shot to death two women and then committed suicide by literally slicing himself to bits about the abdomen, heart, and throat, in a manner which indicated that he was bereft of all reasoning. Law enforcement officers believed that G. was under the influence of marihuana at the time of the double murder and suicide and that he had previously used marihuana. It was the opinion of the doctor who saw G. just before he died that no one could so mutilate himself unless he was unable to feel "shock" and the only thing he knew that would produce such a condition, to such a degree, is marihuana. G. had wandered around in the fields for hours after the killing and after his self-mutilation. -- THE TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS By H.J. Anslinger and William F. Tompkins 1953 Newspaper accounts: DEL RIO [S]- July 22, 1939 pp1 - "Eleuterio Gonzlez to face trail on Criminal Assault Charge Monday" [S]- July 24, 1939 pp1 - "Eleuterio Gonzalez Case Is continued; Hearing Set Aug. 14" [S]- Aug 15, 1939 pp1 - "Girl Testifies in Criminal Assault Case" Maria Guadalupe Ramirez born Oct 1925 [S]- Aug 16, 1939 pp1 - "Witness Tells of Overhearing Interview Between Man and girl in Assault Case" Gore File Case [Maria Flores] [S]- Aug 17, 1939 pp1 - "Jury to Get Criminal Assault Case Today" [S]- Aug 18, 1939 pp1 - "Eleuterio Gonzalez Gets Fifteen Years" [S]- Aug 19, 1939 pp1 - "Gonzalez Asks New Trail in Assault Case" [No Mention of Marihuana - Have not been able to find Sep 1940 Case] MAGAZINE ACCOUNTS: [s]- SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS MAGAZINE Sept. 1940 Name: Carl J. Murphy Date: Sep 1943 Location: Oklahoma city, OK What the Narc's were claiming 1943---OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. September 1943. While under the influence of marihuana, 27-year-old Carl J. Murphy, hotel bellboy, shot and killed J. Stayton Smith, guard in the Federal Building at Oklahoma City, Okla. He was convicted for the crime and sentenced to serve 10 years. Another bellboy who was arrested in the case confessed that he and Murphy had smoked marihuana in a hotel room before the crime was committed. Murphy then left the hotel and walked to the Federal Building. On the street he met three sailors, one of whom he bit on the neck. He struck a small boy whom he met on the sidewalk. Murphy then went to the Federal Building and took charge of an Army Recruiting Office. When Mr. Smith, the building guard, was called to remove Murphy, a fight ensued. Murphy seized a gun from the guard and shot and killed him instantly. Murphy then placed the gun on a chair and walked down the hall singing. He engaged in another fight but was finally subdued and placed in jail. Two days later Murphy was still unable to think or talk coherently. He talked about trying to get on the top of an automobile where he could reach a telephone wire and swing himself to the top of the hotel and from there he could get to heaven. Later at a hearing, Murphy stated that he had smoked marihuana several times; that he did not remember leaving the hotel, nor the fights nor the shooting of Mr. Smith; he did not remember his arraignment and stated the first he knew about the matter was after he came out of the stupor when someone told him he had shot -and killed a guard at the Federal Building. Murphy's employers stated he had always been quiet and sober, and had never caused trouble of any kind. The effects he experienced are characteristic, particularly with regard to the distortion of space and lack of restraint or memory by individuals of their own actions while under the influence of marihuana.-- MARIHUANA; The New Dangerous Drug (pamphlet) by Frederick T. Merrill 1950 version 1943 - J. Murphy, - Oklahoma City Oklahoma - 27 - Hotel bellboy shot and killed elderly guard J.S. in Federal Bldg.; bit I of 2 sailors on street, struck small boy; when guard called, took away his gun and killed the guard; off singing down hall. Another fight, subdued, taken to jail; amnesia next morning. Previously quiet, well-behaved. Jury trial; guilty. - Guilty, 10 years. -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965 A lad named Murphy smoked a stick in an Oklahoma City hotel bedroom with another boy. After he left the hotel, he walked to the Federal Building. On the way he met three sailors, one of whom he bit. He struck a small boy on the sidewalk. At the Federal Building he pushed into an Army Recruiting Office and attempted to take over. -- When the building guard was called to remove Murphy, a fight ensued. Murphy grabbed the guard's gun and killed him. He then walked down the hall, singing. After another fight he was subdued and put in jail. -- Murphy babbled senselessly for two days about climbing onto an automobile where he could get hold of a telephone wire and swing himself up to the roof of the hotel and thence to heaven. When he came out of his stupor, he claimed he remembered nothing. -- True Story (Magazine) - Dec. 1948 The dangers inherent in marihuana use were demonstrated dramatically during the year with the sentencing of Carl Murphy, an Oklahoma City, Okla., bellhop, to 10 years in prison for the slaying, while under the influence of the weed, of a Federal building guard. The slaying culminated a series of brawls in which Murphy participated, and of which he professed to have no recollection after the effects of the weed wore off. Four others were sentenced in this case as the suppliers of marihuana. --- H. J. Anslinger, Commissioner of Narcotics, said this case is but one of many in the files of the Bureau that involve crimes of violence carried out by persons under the influence of the drug. He warned against complacency en the part of the public toward the marihuana problem. He pointed out that while not all persons always display violent reactions to marihuana, there are many instances of persons who, like Murphy, appear of mild and harmless temperament, displaying maniacal characteristics after using the weed. -- Congressional Record 1945 While allegedly under the influence of marihuana, 27-year-old Carl J. Murphy, hotel bellboy, on Sept. 30, 1943, shot and killed J. Stayton Smith, guard in the Federal Building at Oklahoma City, Okla. He was convicted for the crime and sentenced to serve 10 years. ---Another bellboy who was arrested in the case confessed that he and Murphy had smoked marihuana in a hotel room before the crime was committed. Murphy then left the hotel and walked to the Federal Building. On the street he met three sailors, one of whom he bit on the neck. He struck a small boy whom he met on the sidewalk. Murphy then went to the Federal Building and took charge of an Army Recruiting Office. When Mr. Smith, the building guard, was called to remove Murphy, a fight ensued. Murphy seized a gun from the guard and shot and killed him instantly. Murphy then placed the gun on a chair and walked down the hall singing. He engaged in another fight but was finally subdued and placed in the city jail. Two days later Murphy was still unable to think or talk coherently. He talked about trying to get on the top of an automobile where he could reach a telephone wire and swing himself to the top of the hotel and from there he could get to heaven. Later, at a hearing, Murphy stated that he had smoked marihuana several times; that he did not remember leaving the hotel, nor the fights nor the shooting of Mr. Smith; he did not remember his arraignment and stated the first he knew about the matter was after he came out of the stupor when someone told him he had shot and killed a guard at the Federal Building. - Murphy's employers stated he had always been quiet and sober, and had never caused trouble of any kind. - The effects he experienced are characteristic, particularly with regard to the distortion of space and lack of restraint or memory by individuals of their own actions while under the influence of marihuana. -- The Traffic in Opium and Other Dangers Drugs (1943) A recent tragedy, the case of the hotel bell boy who killed a federal guard in Oklahoma City while under the influence of marihuana, is more eloquent testimony concerning the dangers of the drug. -- JAMA - April 28, 1945 NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS: THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN: [Wanted Nov 1, 1943 ] -- "Bellhop of U.S." J.S. Smith dies In struggle At Recruiting Post" [Wanted Nov 2, 1943 ] -- "Officer's Death Is Laid to Own Mercy Policy" [Wanted Nov 2, 1943 ] -- "U.S. Murder Charge Filed Against Bellboy" [Wanted Nov 3, 1943 ] -- "Tragedy Trails Users of Marijuana, Redbirds" [Wanted Nov 7, 1943 ] -- "City Bellboy Slays Federal Guard Here" [Wanted Nov 9, 1943 ] -- "For Marijuana Slayer" [Wanted Nov 13, 1943 ] -- "Bond Sought In city Slaying" [Wanted Nov 20, 1943 ] -- "City Briefs" [Wanted Dec 19, 1943 ] -- "Marijuana Shooting Witnesses Called" [Wanted Jan 11, 1944 ] -- "Bellhop, was indicted Monday by the federal grand jury on a charge of first degree murder, in the shooting of J. Stayton Smith federal buid [Wanted Jan 20, 1944 ] -- "Trial of Marijuana Slaying Case Set" [Wanted Feb 5, 1944 ] -- "City Bellhop Is Found Guilty of Marijuana Slaying charge" 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 [June 11, 1930 pg. 8] “Four are Hurt by Crazed Man” Name: William Aubrey Thompson / Mrs. Helen I. Poole (Victim) Date: Jan 26, 1953 Location: Bluefield, West Virginia What the Narc's were claiming 1953 Bluefield, West Virginia - M 40 Attempted armed robbery Mrs. H. Poole; after seeing newspaper account, vaguely remembered it. -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2 1953 - W. Thompson, - Bluefield, W. Va. M - 40 - Attempted armed robbery Mr. H. Poole, after seeing newspaper account, vaguely remembered it. - Arrested -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965 Newspaper accounts: Washington Post - [Feb 26, 1953; pg. 25] - Man Surrenders In Cab Holdup [Mar 22, 1953 pg. M16] - Man Given 10 Years In Holdup of Hackie Name: Lee Fernandez Date: Aug 1936 Location: Alamosa Colo. 
What the Narc's were claiming It happened in Colorado. In August, 1936, in Colorado a sex-mad degenerate brutally attacked a young girl. He was convicted of assault with intent to rape, and was sentenced to ten to fourteen years in the state penitentiary. Police officers knew definitely that the man was under the influence of marihuana. It was stated by a resident at the time that this was one case in hundreds of murders, rapes, petty crimes, and insanity that have occurred in southern Colorado in recent years because of marijuana.-- Heath magazine Oct. 1938 ALAMOSSA DAILY COURIER: - Colorado (exact city region unknown, could be outside Colorado):(before Sep. 4, 1936) describing an attack by a Mexican American allegedly under the influence of marihuana on a girl of his region. -- Two weeks ago a sex-mad degenerate, named Lee Fernandez, brutally attacked a young Alamosa girl. He was convicted of assault with intent to rape and sentenced to ten to fourteen in the state penitentiary. Police officers here know definitely that Fernandez was under the influence of marihuana. In Alamosa, Colo., a degenerate brutally attacked a young girl while under the influence of the drug. -- American Magazine "Marijuana, Assassin of Youth" By H.J Anslinger - July 1937 Alamosa Daily CourierNewspaper Accounts: Alamosa Daily Courier: [Aug 21, 1936 p2] “Ex-Convict Named as Brute Who Attacked Alamosa Girl; Victim Recognizes Assailant” [Aug 22, 1936 p1] “Brute Ex-Convict who Mauled Girl was Dazed Drunk” [Aug 22, 1936 p2] “Editorial” [Aug 26, 1936 p1] “Victim of Sex Fiend Shows Sign of Rally From Mental Shock” [Aug 31, 1936 p1] “Police Blame Marihuana For Majority of Murders and Sex Outrages in Valley” [Aug 31, 1936 p2] “Editorial” [Sep 1, 1936 p1] “Law-Enforcement Groups Combine to Combat Weed Termed Menace to Valley” [Sep 1, 1936 p2] “Editorial” [Sep 2, 1936 p2] “Editorial” [Sep 4, 1936 p1] “Officers on Guard Against Smuggling of Drug in Valley” [Sep 4, 1936 p2] “Editorial” Date: Oct 1936 Location: Baltimore What the Narc's were claiming Baltimore.-On October 2, 1936, Baltimore City police raided two locations at which several hundred pounds of green and dried marihuana were stored and arrested Joseph Martinez and Ruben Sanchez. Further investigation by local and Federal officers led to discovery of a farm located near the city where large quantities, of growing plants were found to have been cultivated between rows, of corn, under circumstances leading to a belief that a carefully planned cultivation of the weed had been carried on for 2 or 3 years previous. The harvesting of the crop had been proceeding for several days prior to discovery, trucks carting the leaves -and tops into Baltimore, where the drying, grinding, and packaging processes were carried out. The defendants were convicted and sentenced to jail terms and large quantities of the growing plants and dried bulk marihuana were confiscated and destroyed. - AKA the Corn Field affair Newspaper accounts: Inside Detective Magazine [**]- Nov. 1937 - pg. 16 "Thrill-Mad Youth is faced with a sinister menace in MARIHUANA DEVIL'S DRUG! - best description ever. [See Museum Section on -- The Legends of Reefer Madness] According to legend, criminals everywhere were hiding their Medical Marihuana plants in the middle of Corn Fields. More power to them ] Name: --- Date: Nov. 1935 Location: San Francisco Ca. What the Narc's were claiming There were revelations in San Francisco that an owner of a taxicab service was delivering marihuana to hotel parties. The weed was purchased by a young girl on the streets from peddlers who worked the sidewalks, hotels and beer taverns. -- MARIHUANA; The New Dangerous Drug (pamphlet) by Frederick T. Merrill 1950 version Newspaper Accounts: San Francisco Chronicle [Nov. 18, 1935 pg. 1] “Police Close in on Dope Traffic Here” (Girl’s story reveals big marijuana trade among children of city) [Nov. 19, 1935 pg. 1] “Girl Guarded after threat by Dope Ring” (Police, protecting S.F. Informer, push drive on Marijuana Gang) [Nov. 20, 1935 pg. 1] “Mother, girl dope victim are reunited” Name: William Bronston Date: April 24, 1938 Location: Columbus Ohio What the Narc's were claiming COLUMBUS, OHIO - On April 24, 1938, William Bronston was observed by narcotic and police officers as he was about to make a sale of marihuana from his automobile parked at the rear of 387 Charles Street, Columbus. Seeing the officers he leaped from the car, ran down the alley and escaped. The marihuana concealed in his car, consisting of about 227 gm. was seized. Officers entered the premises and arrested Thomas Claridy who was in possession of marihuana cigarettes. William Bronston was subsequently arrested after a hard fight and gun battle, he being under the influence of marihuana at the time. He was tried and convicted on June 7, 1938, and received a sentence of 5 years and $1,000 fine. -- The Traffic in Opium and Other Dangers Drugs (1938) Newspaper Accounts: Ohio State Journal [June 4, 1938 pp12:5] - “Convicted of selling Marijuana” [June 8, 1938 pp2:7] - "Sentenced to Fed Prison" Name: Richard Loeb / Nathan Leopold (Victim = 13 year old Bobby Franks) Date: 1923-1939 Location: Stateville Penitentiary 
What the Narc's were claiming [ NOT AN OFFICIAL Federal GORE FILE CASE ] More recently in another city, during my lecture accompanying the film, I mentioned the Loeb and Leopold murder of Bobby Franks and the later murder of Loeb at Stateville Penitentiary. I suggested that both of these crimes were connected with the use of reefers. A man stood to his feet in the audience and asked if he might speak. I invited him to the platform so that he might speak into the microphone. Said he: "I have spent most of my life in penal institutions. I committed murder when I was sixteen years of age and only recently have been released from Statevlle Penitentiary. I was there when Loeb was killed by a fellow prisoner. I knew that marihuana was being used within the walls of the prison and other prisons where I was confined. Much of my time at Stateville was spent as an orderly in the prison hospital. And in that capacity I have seen scores of inmates hospitalized because of marihuana addiction inside the institution." This man had become a Christian following his release from prison. -- "Assassin of Youth" (Book) 1954 By Robert Devine Sexual desire flames into fires of passion, undeniable, uncontrollable. This is the second phase of reaction. The most debasing perversions are invited and practiced whether the users of the drug be school children meeting in basement rooms, or college youths in groups within or outside the campus; or whether they be prison inmates who have secured quantities of the drug through trusties. Marihuana has been grown on prison farms, unknown to the officials, and taken inside the walls to the inmates. When it is realized that under its influence prisoners fall just as desperately in love with each other as they would with members of the opposite sex outside, one can believe the startling stories of debaucheries which take place within such institutions. Even a fleeting remembrance of the recent death of one of the murderers of little Bobby Franks will recall that it was the refusal of another inmate to submit to his demands for unbelievable perversions that led to his death by stabbing, in the Illinois State Prison. -- Moloch Of Marihuana (1945) Robert James Devine Newspaper Accounts: The Landmark (Statesville N.C.) [Sept 27, 1928 pp7] “Darrow Says It Is “Lot of Bunk” [Aug 18, 1924 pp6 ] “Stern-Faced Alienists Say boys Are Not Mentally Sick “ Stevens Point Daily Journal - (Wisconsin) [Jan 29, 1936 pp5] “Loeb’s Slayer Enters Plea of Self-Defense” Chronicle Telegram [Mar 26, 1928 ] “Lost in Oblivion of State Prison” Clearfield Progress (Clearfield PA) [Jan 31, 1936 pp6] “Killer of Loeb in Prison Fight” - Loeb’s Sentence Ended by Death” Doylestown Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown PA) [Jan 5, 1953 pp8] “News Highlights” Helena Daily Independent [Feb 7, 1936 pp7] “Stone Walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage” Indiana Evening Gazette [Jan 29, 1938 pp1] “Loeb’s Violent Death Stirs Prison” Syracuse Herald (New York) [Feb 1, 1936 pp16] “Inquiry Links Leopold to Loeb Murder” AND MANY MORE [Museum Note - Extensive research of newspapers and other sources, shows no mention of Medical Marihuana at any time. It is our feeling that Medical Marihuana played NO part in these crimes.
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