the washington times.(washington, dc) 1922-03-19 [p ]. · drugs make criminals in more than one ......

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I* the Dish With the Small Amount IsEnough Heroin to Kill anAdult. The Pile of Heroin in the Other Dish Shows How

Much the ConfirmedD OWN in the furnace room In the base. Ad"it Is Able to

meat of New York's Police Head- Tak. .

-quarters the other day stood thebmUs Police Commissioner, Richard E.

Bnright, and Special Deputy Police Com-missioner Carleton Simon. With their feetan the grimy furnace room floor and theirbice red from the glow of the open fire-box,they stood and watched more than threeMillion and, a half dollars' worth of for-bidden drugs thrown In on to the Slowing

-Oqtum In one form or another or chemi-cad derivatives of opium made up most ofthat valuable but contraband collection. Itrepresented &, little less than a year's accn-

Inestion of the Narcotic Division of theNew York police force under the commandof'Special Deputy Commissioner Simon.

If the detectives were able to find andconfiscate such a quantity of dope In a

year's time It must, of course, representbut a small percentage of the actual amountof forbidden drugs which are brought intoNow York City and consumed in a twelve-month. It was a startling evidence of thewidespread use of drugs. and the impressive spectacle sobered the faces of Comn-missioner Enright and his deputy. and do-termined them to pursue the wicked trafficwith even greater vigr.

In addition to the assortment of raw

opium. prepared opium, morphine, heroincocaine and other contraband drugs therewas an extraordinary assortment of opium

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"Wel it s tharsiae huvaluer o'he comunity of whtw ae itniyi.Adthe drugevilttythgrowinghaottheeprlicetknow.pSrecifictlh-

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drug today o pt hat o GreterNew constantly contend.Drugs make criminals in more than one

Yorkto lee. Noonecansay ow any way. Not only does the use of drugs tenddru-crzedcriinas ad cime ofcrati- to "destroy the mental resistance to evilnessandvioencehav ben avrte by that is called morals, but drugs seem to

the eizre ad dstrutio of ll his make their victims insensible to the differ-

It s te rugtha ispies hecraty ence between right and wrong. Drugsschees n te mnds f hghwyme, ~ now cost so much money that the addict

is usually compelled to resort to crime ingiar. cnfienc me an muderrsand order to buy them. Many a criminal hasgivs tem he ourge o d thir el- committed his first offense in order toperae wrk.A grup f ciminls,$0 'buy his "dope.' ' Commissioner Simon

somehiden en, mokng pium Ou ofsays that the average drug fiend pays $5a day. $35 a week for his supply. He has

the ume wil Cme n ida fr sinding arrested addicts who confessed to paying

planfor oldng u a aymateror bow-as high as $16 a day.In the sixteen months that Dr. Simon

Thentheschmer slep, reaing has been In offid6 his Narcotic Division hasweid, xotc, lisfuldremsthrughthe made about 4.000 arrests. The record for

this year is well ahead of that for a corres-thic muky hzeand n te monin at ponding period last yeai-whic'h does not

mean that the drug evil is increasing outbrilian ide ofthe i~h befre.of all bounds in New York City, but mere-The deastil sems fasile-bt ~ro-ly that the Narcotic Division is increasing-

it ot. orml mn-evn cimialsnotly efficient in keeping pace.unde th infuene ofdrus-wold ack Under the State law anyone caught withthe erv tocommt te cime.Butthe drugs fillegally in his possession may be

arrested and sent to take "the cure"-a

howthe ca gt te nrve Alabof he scientific treatment administered in a

hypoermc nedle a siffof ccaie ~ State institution, where the patient isheron-ad tey re smulted malygiven diminishing doses of his drug, fed

unresonngl, t th poit werenoting accordiing to prescribed dietary, and madestopthemto exercise until eventually he has lost the

Unde li nfu~ne oftbeirus ptty "habit" and is well and strong enoughthivesshot teirvicims puse nath.mentally and physically to be released.

ers rutllyassultyoug grls cofidnce The cure really cures, but, unfortunately,.men.. not l .=,andh theirprey, but pa. undaerrd victims return to their old

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Million and a Half Dollars Worthby the New York Police Narcotic I

haunts and associates and often are soonenmeshed in the toils of the drug again.

It is througI~the discovery and arrestof drug users that Dr. Simon's men get tothe drug peddlers-the men they ae reallyafter. The drug addict tells the policewhere he buys his supply. or they shadowhinm until they find out for themselves.Then, pretending to he drug fiends them-selves-every detective in the NarcoticDivision can give an excellent Imitation ofa "cokey" or a "hop-head"-they persuadethe peddler to sell them the drug. Thenho is arrested, or his depot raided. It wasthe spoils of these raids that went intothe furnace-except for several thousanddollars' worth still awaiting use as evi-dence In court.Where does all this drug come from?

The Federal law forbids its importationexcept under bond. The Treasury Depart-ment has a force of men at work to pre-vent it being smuggled in-too small aforce to cover the lengthy biorders and sea-coast of the country. Much of it comesfrom Europe. Dr. Simon, who has agentsin England and the Continent, discovered'recently that the Germans were manufact-uring heroin and cocaine synthetically,and that they and a Japanese syndicatewere planning to flood the United Stateswith their products. There is no law inGormany or Japan to forbid the exporta-lion of narcotics.A good deal of dIope has found its way

to New York recently from Canada, whichin turn got it from Mexico. By thearrest in New York a few weeks ago of aMontreal criminal and opium user Dr.Simon verified information coming to himfrom other sources, namely, that the drugring in Montreal hasa been using chorusgirls playing in Montreal to smuggle drugsover the 'border.

'rhe Monteal. bnd m.a it a practice

Mnellerusesioner Simc

6f the PoliceSupply ofI Criminalsoys8 Enough.uim to Put

ty to Sleep"Deck" of Herein Was Sminggled

athe Tomb.,

of Contraband Drugs,)iyiuion in thme Last Year.

to lure the girls to a certain no-torlous dive which pretended tobe a theatrical club, and byslipping a drug into their drinksehsiaved them. They cravedthe drug, after they had beentold what It was that madetheir drink so "different," andthey could only get the drug by4oing the will of the gang. Someof them were set to work tryingto corrupt customs officers.others carried supplies of the "Decks"drug boldly away with them the Nwhen their shows left town.Still others became regular travellingsaleswomen, making the triangular tripbetween Montreal, Boston and New York.The drug was conoealed in ingenious ways.The mysterious deaths of several beau-

tiiful girls in New York recently hingeupon the operations of the Montreal drugring, as did the wild flight of an unnamedwoman from Montreal to New York in atai not so long ago-an adventure thatremains a mystery Nso far.The drug evil has developed a new derm

of criminal, which Dr. Simon has Isolatedand iden-tified just as a bacteriologistmight Isolate and describe a new germ.He is the "drug booster," who seldom usesthe drug but persuades others to use It.He Is the missIonary, the advance agentof the drug ring.Sometimes he distributes free samples,

sometimes he enslaves a number of girlsand spreads the habit through them allover a factory or store. He and his assist-ants work on a commission basis. He isthe successor to the cadet or 'procurer ofthe white-slave trafice, for he ad. he canuse girls more prwitably In peddling drugsthan In other forms of vice. Recently Dr.Simonn ha fond school childen apsed

r inN0ft Reveals the

Deputy Police Comnmissiona.Mooney Destroying Dop.

at Pellee Headquar-esNew York.

of Heroin Concealed in a Copy ofsw York Board of Health Report.in this practise; one of the women re-terred to above had a large clientele, infashIonable hotels and made a specialtyof boosting the drug among collegestudents.Ihnee ball habitues number maany drug-

boosters; others pose as chorus girls. Iftheir 0015mmm are of the higher planesof sealety they seldom fall within theclutches of the police, because there isenough money avaiable to buy the drugwithout resorting to crime. In the lastflew weeks, however, Commissioner Simonhas tan down some of the peddlers whosupply the upper West Side, the MurrayHill section and Fifth avenue with drugs,and wealthy usera of narcotics are findingIt more dificult to' get their daily dope.One of these peddler. had a route as

defiaite as that of a milkman. Beginingat six every morning he made his endaof fasbiemable apartment houses, leavingthree decks of cocaine here, a phial ofmorphine there, halt a dosen decks ofheroin at the next place. Sometimes, hisbooks showed, he was called on to supplyadditional opium or heroin for a "party,"Just s a catorer might supply dinners.w meine. Itan saithat on sveral

w'tork

Sinon and Lieutenant Joseph J.and Opiums Pipes in the Furnace

occasions he actually supplied experts to"cook" the opium for a patron who wantedto treat hin guests to a smoke.The tenseness of modern life, the after-

war reaction-thesesand many other fac-tors are responsible for the Increase inthe drug evil, and it takes steadj. patientwork on (fommissioner Simon's part tocombat it. He himself works with hismen almost every night, sometimes untildaylight, watching suspects, raiding drugdepots or opium dens, questioning prison-ers.The doctor is a good example of Com-

missioner Enright's policy of placing com-

petent civilians in the Police Department.For many years Dr. Simon was wellknown as an alienist and criminologist.He figured as an expert In the Burts.Guldensuppe, Morrison and Molineauxmurder trials, and when the murdererTapley was hanged in Jersey City some

years ago Dr. Simon received the signalswhich, by prearrangement, the murderersent until he lost consciousness. The re-sults of this experiment did much toabolish that form of capital punishment inNew Jersey.

It was Dr. Simon who conducted theprincipal investigation into the "wtercure" which the army was accused ofpractising in the Philippines, and whomade psycholegical studies of Czolgoss,President McKinley's assssin. A fewweeks ago the Federal Government sub-poenaed him to act as expert witness atthe trial in Oklahoma City of the manwho gave a hashish cigarette to a policeofficer, putting the policeman to sleep andallowing prisoners to escape. Dr. Simon'stestimony corroborated other evidence andfour men were convicted.One of the greatest forward steps in the

war on drugs Is the founding by Dr.Simon of a central clearing house for thephotographs and records of drug users andpeddlers. He is in correspondence withthe police authorities in more than 300cities here and In Europe, and exchangeswith them the dossiers of anyone foundto be engaged In the drug trafici. A fewdays ago Dr. Simon's men arrested a LosAngeles addict who had been in New Yorkonly eight hours.And along about five o'clock the other

morning the Montreal "hop head" referredto above was talking to the quiet. kindly-~voiced man who seemed to have somethingto do with the detectives who had madethe arrest, and yet was not like them.

"Well," said the "hop head." "I haven'tbeen able to do a thing since I landedhere six weeks ago, Haven't made a cent.And I hear this guy Simon Is a tough egg-you can't get to him, and his men havedriven most of the gang out of town--that's why there's so many of them inCanada now, and why junk costs sq muchigore in New York than ether places. It'shard to get, and this guy Simon is makingit harder all the time."

It was "this guy Simon" to whom the"hop head" was speaking, but he neverknew AL