HIDDEN DRUGS.

Grey River Argus, 8 December 1928, Page 4 (Supplement)

HIDDEN DRUGS.

WILES OF TRAFFICKERS. DARING methods exWjsed. 1 hat section of the known a the “brigade has hu<] .tn exceptionally busy .<>unding up the traffickers in drugs ‘"‘•I a certain class of who ™Hing themselves interpref'ls ’ had -imeeived <very daring method of rubbing tourists ‘ Not all the arrests of t l„. traffickers >•> CO.-O" are reported in the newspapers, but thos,. effected lately are particularly inter-sting bv r.-a-.m of the ru es that the.,, merchants a. ted tor concealing the dru" From eight t„ t-n oY-lu.-k at night there is a constant stream of taxicabs up the Rue an(] th( . Ru< . Blanche, and many of their occupants arc proceeding to th, stqblishments which abound on th- h.v.er side of the two boulevards whirl, intersect Montmartre. Heavy curtains at th c windows de feat prying eyes. There is an air -nf mystery about these places, but if you listen you can hear sounds of revelrv. They are not cabarets, these establishments. but bars of a special kind, and the customers are there not entirely for the purpose of drinking; business is done—the buying and sell ing of small packets of cocaine. Outside, men may be f ecu, apparently taking an evening walk. They are detectives, whose business it is to •atoli the traffickers. For weeks the suspected vendors are watched, and clover hauls have been made. A well Iressed young man was arrested in he Rue Fontaine ami starched. but nothing was found on him. His stick, however, attracted the detective. It was broken; it was hollow and was filled wit 1 t.ic white powder. Ih.s man was known to have a '•lose friend, a cyclist, who was watch'd in turn. The cyclist was pedalling up the stre<t. He was stopped and • aken to tin* police station. But ther>was nothing in his pockets. Ir occurred t o the detectives to examine hi icycle. It was a very fruitful examination, for in the frame work was hidden cocaine worth 5000 francs. Another trafficker had concealed the Inig in the lining of his hat. The de

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