THE DRUG TRAFFIC
ARREST IN PARIS The sight of a fashionably^ressed woman alighting Irom a limousine outside a dingy hotel in Montmartre recently attracted the attention of a passing detective. He waited about for a lime, and the woman reappeared from the hotel carrying a bouquet of violet. Later ho noticed that other visitors to the hotel, including five stage celebrities all carried bouquets when thev left’ 'Hie detective reported the matter to the Surete. and later the police arrested a woman living at the hotel. Henrietta Pierre, on a charge of trafficking in heroin and cocaine. It is alleged that, in her room was found a large quantity of drugs, some of it in a trunk and the rest of it concealed in bouquets of violets. Four men and women prominent • i the Paris theatrical world and five women said to bo well known in social circles arc alleged to have visited the hotel to buy (lie woman’s “ bouquets.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21129, 15 June 1932, Page 10
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160THE DRUG TRAFFIC Evening Star, Issue 21129, 15 June 1932, Page 10
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