WOMAN OPIUM SMOKER
ALMOST SELF-POISONED
When Lily Harris, aged 52, widow, of Torringtcri Square, Bloomsburv, London, recently admitted a charge of being in possession of prepared opium and pipes, Mr. W. L. SandeTs, prosecuting, told th« Clerkenwell magistrate that ii. was not a case of supplying opium to other peopleAccused had been smoking it and poisoned herself.
Mr. Sanders added that when the police visited Mrs. Harris' house she collapsed and was subsequently in Colney Hatch for six months.
" She has only just come out," he said, " and has boon arrested in her own in* terests." Mr. Sanders stated that when the police arrived all thd implements for opium smoking were laid out for use in the bedroom.
Tho sister, Mrs. Bellman, of Burdett Road, said her husband, who was employed as a ladies' tailor, was willing to support thp woman, and sho was willing to look after her. Mrs. Harris was bound over for two years, with Mrs. Bellman as surety, to come up for judgment if called upon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21450, 25 March 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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