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Ten Years 0i Dope Smuggling

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1.11811" rho provided all the little en w th narcotic drugs to gall to them.

It was in July oi 1922 that the police of Chicago caught, mm in

tiln to the insidious merghgndigg "u" he dwell 111. and the man who lied hushed at the combined ei- Iorts of the police oi a dozen coun- tries was as easy mark for Chicago detectives.

IIe sat In his coll at the central police ttation. a worried hunted look on bis face. Tomorrow he was going to Leavenworth penitentiary for five Years.

No soothing morphine there!

No royal suite to rest weary drug wrecked bones.

Short shifts for such a great per- sonage!

“Yell! Tomorrow was coming swiftly. Might as well talk to some- body that would listen and so he re- Iates the story oi ten years.

“One shot tonight and another to- morrow alt the Harrison Street Sta- tion from the station doctor at $3 a crack and then Leavenworth and the cold turkey treatment. It's great outlook. isn't it but its got to

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' the world. "Ilolv did I start in llle peddllugllering down the street with an old |llllul, and then retire on tho fruits lcoworker, "Dips" Myers, l.lE1I time lot well earned victories.

' game? Listen! I over the border from San Diego in’ _

' l ~ed, I hired an auto to take me buck ‘knew there were plenty of livo op- ;._‘ "Tn-o chinks in Frisco wnntoiljo Hot Springs, l0 eel as fill‘ from gportunlties in Friscds Clilllu 'l‘nwll,

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i. dope smuggling ever put across in Allis country.

' me at .\l()Ill.I‘t'l.ll, "Betty is berlll-l‘. No

come. Well, I'm ready lo take my JIIFMIICIIIG. I guess I've had my share of peddling. I've peddlerI in fifteen States, smuggled It over the .\lcxlcan and foreign borders for ion years.

i "Guess, I'm getting too old for jthe game. If I had been younger ‘they woild never have got me a-‘l

their dragnet. He himself fell a vlc- .

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mandala" llo in recom- lt In mode from M“ Robina! £13: 1:1!» have and. _ p,“ “q

ton to New York; made three trip ‘l-IEIWQQII York and Montreal before rebelvlng the wire. The 1000 cans of Branch Preserves netted me $26,000. -

‘iMy French friend at New Or- leans. ch g at h-Is good hand. Bllrprlsed mo by taking me to his home andqmpentiug mo with a sold hypo-a gm indulged by Paris druggists ‘because oi the competi- tion of agents oi India. concerns who were trying to educate the French people to use “haasheesh" (made from the flower of India hemp) medically known as canni- ‘bis Indica.

“This is a powerful narcoltc- more deadly than cocaine, and for this reason has failed oi any ex- tenslve use. II never suspected my French confrere to be B. ',Iunkel"-— though five grains a day W85 his minimum and ten grains often a daily dosage.

"lit was than I qull New Orleans and “Franchyfl Extensive acquaint- ance is quite the wrong thing in dope smuggling.

“In the fall of 1916 with my pock- ets lbulging and mind at ease utter

i614 Clark Street. My mind was not working fast enough and they, caught me so I'll have to take my medicine. Ii you want to be a suc- cess as a peddler you've got to have la keen brain and work Inst. I've, lost my pep, my nerve, so it's all

“Is there a dope trust? II-l no.

. But there is a dope ring in a sense

that there is a certain classs oper- ating in certain ways. No man or set of men, powerful in politics or business is back of dope smuggling

. ‘People think so. C01. Nutt, chief oli , the narcotic division at Washington

llllinks sof But I know different, I

was one of them.

“The trade of smuggling is too easily worked by Junkers lo permit a trust. No set of nlcu could llllndle

each other. They would drop the

lagcut of the trust and go smuggling themselves because oi‘ bile big nt-o-

jncy In the game. Its every man for flumself. and the worst ‘business in I

“I began at Tia Juana, lllexicoJ 1912.

"Kl-ow." both ior thc pipealul thel

I00 pounds of gum

‘which morphine is derived, ll0ll\'t‘l‘~; - lire that I would be

cll at a certain llotcl in Iirisco.

“I ilcccptted! '

“In two trunks. each contaiulll: {fake bottom, and lpacked with thea- flricztl effects and bearing the nam WC-alnille Bcmllllrt." New York shipped the slutT to San Ilieuu lin-

V “One Chink was to follow lllc lo Frisco. That was a condition I lllzillc to avoid double crossing by a government mun.

I told the Chink to speak to no one, and especially not to. me on the ferry between Oakland Frisco where government opcru- lives swarm. To have done so would have ntealllt instant. detection. That afternoon, I collected and boarded tllc Sunset Iiimileil fol‘ New Or- leans. to “pull" lilo biggest thing In

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“I was llrell of lllc "piking" panic at Tin Juana, ltnd I know Il/Illll)’ "junk“ runners at El Pnso wllo were at puts with "tinfoil smug-l glers." My chalice hnd come. for I had twelve thousand (lOllilPS in good legal tender, having nllulc the chinks plly nu extra two thousand for expenses.

"At New Orleans. I arranged with a Freucltlzitln. Poyrlrcs Street. nc-ari Illnmolvl Alley, a dcalci- In fallcv delicatessen uoods to receive my umslgnmenl. tlo matter wllcrc- I put it aboard nor whul it was labeled. Tile divvy was llftyllltyn tlflcr ex- pcnsos worn paid.

"I had learned curly in llils gums to give, or make llle olllcl" fellolvl think I was giving, llillll ‘f what I‘ 540i.

"I sllllril for New York. lvil-ilod for passports and lcn days Iulcr was in lmnzlg, llIP frccst porl I'm" sulllgglillg in the world. _ "Ilerc I nblalllcll my cllin opium.

[.111 ll in sixlccil ounce. ('IIIIEI, label» l-ll it I-‘rcnch I'm-servos, and coll- signed Iv-IJIIIO cans-lo my

Fr-lnch confident at New (Irlcilm. .\Iy instructions to him were to iplace It on his shelves and the um- Il't‘IIl It was nll his shelve l0 wire

cause for zllarln.“

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continued smuggling and peddling, I journeyed to Hot Springs for the baths. I intended taking a thirty day sIesta-—nnt even a. thought of dope. when. forty-eight hours Ibilel‘ i signed up at the Arlington Hotel, I smelt a trail and was in the thick of it again.

“There were two negrocs loiter- ing about the lavatory, apparently friends oi the shoe shim-rs. Gain- ing their confidence, .1 soon had an lounce of morphine in my tiosscss- lion. I wanted to see the man be- hind the gun.

“Trailing him fnr a week at odd moments led rme to n cottage not far away.» from which I saw emerge a uniformed police officer. Now, of course I would have protected the officer, but I wanted to IUCETIEIIII whether there were 035i?!‘ \\'=1.\'5 0| getting it than mine.

“The following Saturday night saw the officer In Little Rock, and myself not a hundred Presently he entered I-Iotel, and in an hour canto

the .\l%I.l‘l0II saun-

out with me lbelng at Tauipico. "I was so surprised and ilisgllst-

“Dips" as I could for I know lie

they would Iiu- safci‘ ‘lll Illl.‘ hands of the government.

"The next momin! l W111i l" 7"" urkallzl and again llcuilctl on thc Ill- lcrnatlonlll and (irczlt Northern lol" ioints beyond the Iiorrler line.

“On the lllove"——riilgs incessantly

ficer and together

lln the brain of I111‘ suiussicr will |tu lilo bar lo spculi the tlloncy.

believe mc- thcru are minutes wilt-n

sleep, Iiistilncc lcllds no enchant- lrent to tht- Junker: lllcrc Is urt II nlll Lhiltseeilts greener than others. But the drive forwvard-whe eternal push on, compensates itself In tile gitme about to be played-

"Tllus, when I pullcd up at Taill- plco, on Ilfcxiclvs west coast, l rc-

isolvvll Ill I>11ll i1 “will” ‘llll- 01' llllllQlot-lted up for flllurc reference, Two

tobacco. similar to lLouisiasn per. sulutrgllng. _

“I lllill no thought of Tampir-Q vxllcn I Ii-lt lk-xarkzlnu. I was koini! in do .\ll‘).‘ll'll (‘My nud ulaku a Cflllll by way ui (Izllvcslnn. 0n the train. 1 (llSIWIVIQYPIl that some 500 chitin- lIll'Il had rr-cclilly landed at Tum- pico. I knew they would bo lousy with opium, fcr blc-illco. you know. is blind when i! comes to 011111111; and that is lvllcrc mllree-fourths oi lhc dope consumed in the Ilnltell States ‘illegally originates. Ask D1‘- lle lll Gurdu. lravQIlBB Aldmlfi‘ camp to Co. Nult of the Narcotic Illvisitm.

“I lvns rlKlI‘l~--TiI.lIIDlC0 was line's nest with (‘li-lllkfi and the." '\\l'l‘f‘ so l.~.\\- in the face. you'd. think they hadn't had -tlle pipe will l» lllIPlI‘ mouths: since Confucius pullrld up.

“What (llll I mlrr- for their SIIIIOW- ncsss. I wiiiilcvl their opium and to be on 111v way. I purchased 400 tmunlls. pxliil fol" ll in American sil~ vcr dollars‘. zit $15 u lpounll. the low point lII tho market Ilrlce- The chinks l)(‘ll(‘\'('ll the Anlcrican dol- lat" worth twice lilo Mexican llcl- Iur. I galnoll lliut way.

"Taluplcn was a lively vqrt 1W1" oil shipments, and because Mexi- cim jwlroleunl cums quickly when deposited In tho holds of a ship. it could svarcc be told l'rom gum OI)- lum which itself is mucIlat-Yf-‘Oll! B1111 looks like thick, black Bvfiihlim m‘ Missouri mule. as they cull ll-

‘ll bairclczl the opium, labeled It, ‘No. I Petroleum, Tnmpl") Cilllsoll‘ dated Oll Co‘, and loaded It aboard an oil vessel, consigned to Galves- ton, Tex., the destination 0T ll"? freighter, whose cargo of oil was being sent via Galveston to the rr- flnerlea Ill. Purl Arthur. Tex-

“No trick so far.

"Tin- gitme offset previous sleblr less nights. and my flplfllfl "B"

den to the shoulders and arms. Covers skin blemishes. Wlli not rub ofl. Far en- gcrier to powders.

hitc-Flelh-Rachcl.

t‘ 10:10! Trial Stu

was n graduate of Heldel-bel-K 14ml non won high honors with a thesll on the Isolation of motlpllllw- l "9' solved lo slwoop down on some 01 lflly junk petltller ‘friends in

nlounllnz. Illil I wanted this con-i signmenl In ChIc880”Wll9l'e a clover manufacturing chelnisll whom I knew and who was in till! game would transform the opium Into morphine cubes. This chemist

Chic-

dinnele. rheuma- eetenh ‘h mo“ hggdggbg mild-gm villas.‘ cola’ mo. and

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some Inuktitut bed only enough WIN‘ HM milk to bold the mor- phine tog .

"My confederate in Gaivasotn was I moor. One must not imagine the trouble over In this smuggling some when he bu crossed intone» 110ml boundaries. for government asentl trail every kind o! ship- ment. But, there wasn't anything wrong in n grocer receiving n. bor-

rel oi ‘No. 1. Petroleum’, was there? . - “I reached Galveston n week af-

ter the ehlpment. My grocer was tickled to see me, for he wee got- tlng nervous. I soon relieved him oi his fear. Taking an old sorghum barrel I loaded It up with the junk, false ends, ten Inches deep. eon- talnlng all the sorghum the grocer had left. The center oi course. con- tained the sum opium. _ "To Chicago went the barrel oi‘ lTexas sorghum. and to my chemist {friend the liollowing telegram." "No. 1 grade Texas sorghum en route." . "I telephoned him from Sherman lI-Iouse, Chicago, a. week later, and he said it was in the midst of its transformation. “It took me Just four days to ped- dle over 2,000 ounces at $20 an ounce to five peddlers, two of them owned bl shoe stores and one of them ‘was acting ior a bunch of doc- tors. One doctor I! know treated over forty addicts daily. yet the government agents never found more than twenty grains of mor- phine In his possession at any

It was not advisable to leave Frenehy for too long. though I sat- isfied him with a $2,000 advance when I stopped at Bllenos Ayres on my vray to India, This was in 1918.

dispose of my New Orleans junk.

:1 soon dlszovered. Ono ehot 9i it

was enough. I new a mace for it; it bould be used n an‘ admixture in cigarette: or In‘ combination with iqne. ‘ll conceived a trade or medical term for it. one that would pus as 800d ior catarrhnl and nelcal trout» lee. It was thus that I conceived the name. dlnriwane, to be sdld in packages ior twenty-ave cents. ' “II purchased 2,000 pounds, of “haoshceb” or cannihis lndica, and ,l‘0C00d6d to manufacture by dry- ing it and mix-lug e harmless herb. fit was oi course an India remedy. used maylmp by the Hindus away back yonder, but only recently, ‘brought to light. ‘l! shipped 5,000 packages oi it without trouble to a-selllng agency in New York with instructions to canvas only large centers. It went well where It was known what its effect was. but it was too slow lnov- ing. ‘lit is now known everywhere. though I have bud nothing to do‘ with It for several years. And co- incidentally, it was like a last straw to mo only a few years ago down at Calexico, California, when I was on the slide physically. "I sailed ior I-lngland; did France. Belgium and Germany and coli- cluded I had better get busy and

tlme- they called. and this was the regulation pbarmaceutlcally prey pared morphine~—round tablets in‘ tubes, duly labeled. And he has an office on LaSaIle Street.

"And what became of the $26,000 I got outvoi the New Orleans deal the $12,000 at Frisco, and approxi- mately $20,000 at-Chlcago?

“What became of It?”

“Easy!

“My expenses at that time were $100 a day and more-old stolgv, wine, women and song~and ‘trade- expense.’ That's the rub. The smu

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gling game requires wits and wits. if they amount to anything, luoney", and wi-ts peter out like everything else. and then you descend to a tin- fdlier and the end is my end hero this tniltute.

“I'll give you some illustrations of Iiow one drops from Iligh alti- tlldes to Io\v levels In dope siting- gling. or how wits peter o-ut. Peter- in); oi wits, get me, lie tho result. of, lowered lmentltllty—--tlle lncvilublcl ‘home, sweet home‘ of drug illllllU-I lion.

“Plenty of money Iu pocket. I s out to learn what all this dope b

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land-thereby Ilnd, maybe. it last‘ Pgolden opportunity’ for one gitlnd:

{ “My first s-tcp was Seattle-atoll ;Frisco, as you lnllglll imagine. I

but I did not know so much about

.. nccille. They offered me $10,000 ior was lilfllilll; “lill-iflil" tlllrlil-s- Mid ‘Seattle. It was in Scuttle early in opium, fi-lnn- besides lie would “tip" nlo lo the ol-.llll7. that I (liscovcrell lite Jzlp to

be a. smuggler. - , “'I‘Iic Jup is no jullkcr. but llc is. ;\:ll_v. And as a seamzln on those (Ir-i licntal Iiozlts lie Ilall and used many chances. and Scalttlc ‘was untouched‘, I-y sluugglcrs. I saw the Jtlll sailor lgo to and from hotels whore lllci’ IIIIIVO conilllallts In lines and rush

“Tho Jilp would COZICOIII oplulul

even Illvfpllillfl ‘Vlll 1103 lull “you Ills person and in Ills Ilzlzgagtuls‘

fund lake il to Ills agent llt till: hotel." ,"I"Iic same uzliue, worked ever -i ,\vhere was nipped b_v Dr. (ftlrltoll ISIIIIOII. head of Now York's police ‘narcotic division, no‘. ‘lollg zlgo in Ill ‘fashionable New York hotel and ll ‘Jllp was thc biz: gun in it. loo.

, "I kcpl my Scuttle information

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weeks Inter I turned up at Nogas- nko. I<‘lve days was all I nccdcll lo lgct the ilnlllc of Jilp zlctivlly. The {point ‘Wltll-JVIIPTP was the Jup got- ‘tlllg it? I established In Nllgits.'llcl filffillil lflonilcvlllius with a lczl incl"- lchnnt. .

"You Ilavc no doubt observed that not once have l uiclllinnlul :1 woman as lny colllcdcrlllc. ullll not wince did I have any.

“The Ulllnosc (lovorniuclll. at thc ffllll? "llflfifllflilll: Hollie lligll vault- ,lng in government rvlornls. was no ‘place for foreigners of my low Ill‘- ‘gree-lliough Clrlnmnen did as tin-y pleased wllh their poppies. IIut lilo Jail wns doinl: buslne... \vI:h lilo Chink ‘b_v way of ‘.\ll'lIIl.‘lllII‘lll, wilt-r»- tllc Jlllp Ilolzls swirl".

‘ll knclv I would Iuivc to lilecl lllt‘ cxlorlion lllut thc Jnp would l-x- act If i bought froln Ililli; or should I make lllill. us in lllc casual‘ my New Orleans lrlcnd. u go-bcllt-wvl There was Just one ccrtllin v.':l_v of doing lltls~proitlisc him Califor- Illa laud. I trllosa- lllc Iilllcl‘ liUIlI'>'-".

“In Sllilllgllni I lliltl no troll-lilo nrriuiglttg for shipment to my Jllp UOIIIEIlOPiIIQ at Nagasaki or pounds of excellent gum opium as Colon ten, at $8 the pound. I gut lllls ollt of Nagasaki Iby paying one dollar n pound extra to my Jap tea agent. .