DOPE QUEEN HUNTED

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4473, 21 November 1933, Page 8

DOPE QUEEN HUNTED

GIRL MASTER-MIND OF GANG. Disclosures arising out of a case of opium smuggling at Southampton 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 London, every Continental capital, and in America. Behind this gang are several cuttured young Germans and Frenchmen, and working under them are a 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 on the run who knows more than any other person about the dope traffic. She is a mysterious woman, only 22, known under the name of “Alma” and “Miquette.” She is believed to be the daughter of one of the oldest aristocratic families in France. A year or Two ago this adventuress stopped at an unostentatious address in the West End of Lo'ndon 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 her down.

Her movements were carefully camouflaged, and instead of travelling by 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 coast. 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 clubs.

All ports are being closely watched by the cusmos officials and the special branch of Scotland Yard in the hope of tracking down “Alma” and her associates.