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from Congressional Hearing 1937
Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Finance United
States Senate, Seventy-Fifth Congress, First Session on H.R.6906 - July
12, 1937 Excerpt from statement of Federal Bureau of Narcotics chief
Harry J. Anslinger
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MR. ANSLINGER
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I received this letter from an attorney at Houston, Texas, just the
other day. This case involves a murder in which he alleges that his
client, a boy 19 years old, had been addicted to the use of marihuana.
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SENATOR BROWN
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Shall we read this into the record?
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MR. ANSLINGER
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Yes, sir; I shall be very glad if you will.
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(The letter is as follows:)
Houston, Tex., July 7, 1937
H. J. Anslinger United States Commissioner of Narcotics
Washington, DC
Dear sir: Your article on Marihuana appearing in the
July issue of the American is very useful as well as interesting. this
subject strikes close to home because of a client I have who not so
long ago murdered in a brutal way a man who had befriended him in giving
him a ride. This client is a boy 20 years of age and he explained to me
he has been smoking marihuana for several years. I would like to have
about 1 copies of your article and will gladly pay any necessary
charges. I would appreciate an early reply.
Yours Truly, Sidney Benbow
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MR. ANSLINGER
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I
have another letter from the prosecutor at a place in New Jersey. It is
as follows:
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The Interstate Commission on Crime March 18, 1937
Charles Schwarz, Washington, DC
My Dear Mr. Schwarz: That I fully appreciate the need
for action, you may judge from the fact that last January I tried a
murder case for several days, of a particularly brutal character in
which one colored young man killed another, literally smashing his face
and head to a pulp, as the enclosed photograph demonstrates.
One of the defenses was that the defendant's intellect
was so prostrated from his smoking marihuana cigarettes that he did not
know what he was doing. The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to
a long term of years. I am convinced that marihuana had been indulged
in, that the smoking had occurred, and the brutality of the murder was
accounted for by the narcotic, though the defendant's intellect had not
been totally prostrate, so the verdict was legally correct. It seems to
me that this instance might be of value to you in your campaign.
Sincerely yours, Richard Hartshorne
(Mr. Hartshorne is a member of the Interstate Commission
on Crime. We have many cases of this kind.)
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SENATOR BROWN
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It affects them that way?
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MR. ANSLINGER
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Yes.
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SENATOR DAVIS
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(viewing a photograph presented by Mr. Anslinger) Was
there in this case a blood or skin disease caused by marihuana?
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MR. ANSLINGER
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No; this is a photograph of the murdered man, Senator.
It shows the fury of the murderer.
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SENATOR BROWN
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That is terrible.
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