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Show be permissible for any unregistered j physician to "prescribe" drugs or ;m : other medicine , for "p&llent" by simply leaving the unlawful prescription prescrip-tion lyin fiii , Is desk and not personally per-sonally giving it to the person for whom it is intended, and there can be-no be-no prosecution iu the case. Members of the state honrd of medical med-ical examiners are dismayed at the circumstances surrounding the case. "We bad an excellent cuse with I conclusive evidence :iL;alr. at this man Maxwell." s iid Dr. I. Clarev.r.j Sinul!- I van yesterday, "and we are by no mean .4 through with him. "I have been told by Ihe munly attorney's at-torney's ofl'.ee ti't Ihe fiiots agninst Maxwell warrant his puri.inicm; by ' law, but because o( a dot'ecl. cither j in the law or the drawing up ol :h ; complaint, we have failed to piosc- cute him successfully on this occu- j slon. I wnt the penylo of t.K.ls city to understand that It Is not becRijse the medical board la at fault that these cases brought Into court ar t subsequently thrown out." 1 MAXWELL ESCAPES THROUGH TECHNICALITY Salt )ake. Auk. IS. Because of an apparent loop-hole In the law. "Dr " I. W. Maxwell, who was recently re fused a license to practice medicine In Utah by the state board of medical medi-cal examiners, and against whom conclusive con-clusive evidence was obtained showing show-ing that e had prescribed and secured secur-ed cocaine for "fiends" addicted to the use of the .rug. was rilMmlsaeil in the polite court yesterday morning. Under tho ruling handed down by -Tudge J. J. -Vhitaker. In the case against Maxwell, who was charged wlth practicing medicine without a license, li-cense, it is understood that It would |