OPIUM DEALERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 4 January 1924, Page 5

OPIUM DEALERS.

A DABING KOBBERY.

WATCHMAN GAGGED,

«V OABU—PBIdB AonOCIATIOH—COPTBISH?

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Evidence of operations of a syndicate of illicit opium dealers appeared in a daring robbery, in which eleven bandits bound and gagged five pier watchmen and took ten cages of opium, valued at a hundred thousand dollars. The bandits arrived simultaneously, partly by launch and partly by motor. Advancing from opposite ends of the sixty foot pier, they intimidated and disabled the guards successively, and then calmly selected •opium from assorted consignments. The police arrived long after the bandits had escaped.