DOPE QUEEN HUNTED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 18

DOPE QUEEN HUNTED

Girl Master-Mind of Gang

Disclosures arising out of a case of opium smuggling at Southampton on Fridav have put Scotland Yard on the track‘of one of the cleverest gangs of “dope” traffickers in the world (states the “Sunday Chronicle.”) The gang has agents in Loudon, every Continental capital, and in AmeBehind this gang are several cultured voung Germans and Frenchmen, and working under them are a number of prettily-dressed women of various nationalities who are clever at disguise. and by systematically moving from one capital to another have for a long time eluded the police. There is one woman now on the run who knows more than any other pew son about the dope traffic. She is a mysterious woman, only 22. known under the names of “Alma” and “Miquette.” She is believed to be the daughter of one of the oldest aristocratic families in France. A ve.-tr or two ago this adventuress

stopped at an unostentatious « fl< ires.. in the West End of London where It was known that cocaine and opium parties were held In secret. The police had been warned of her presence, together with other of her satellites, but they could not track hei down. Her movements were carefully camouflaged, and instead of travelling bv boat trains, she flew in an aeroplane which at that time was being used for the dropping of all kinds of dangerous drugs at specified spots on the English eoast. The drugs were afterwards picked up by motor-cars and driven to London. where they were disposed of by agents in the hire of mushroom night Cl All ports are being closely watched bv the customs officials and the special branch of Scotland Yard in the hope of tracking down “Alma” and her associates.