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Show AGED PREACHER IS GUILTY OF FRAUD NEW YORK. Feb. K-. William N. Ritchie, 71 years of age, a former Presbyterian Pres-byterian clergyman, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn today to having sold a habit-forming habit-forming drug under the guise of a cure for drug addicts. The police asserted he had made large profits from his business. busi-ness. He will b sentenced February 23. Ritchie's attorney defended the former minister's sin verity and decia red be did not ,-ell the "medicine" with the intention of violating the law. aithouuh lie bad dispensed dis-pensed bis rure for twenty years, advertising adver-tising it extensively. |