£25,000 DRUG HAUL
SMUGGLER SHOT U.fi. POETUE TRAP NEW YORK. August 6. With the arrest here, to-day of two ding smugglers tho .federal police believe they have broken up one of the largest narcotic “rings" of the last 10 vrars The police bad known lor months that a certain group, with headquarters in Cans, bad been in constant communication ’with distributing agents in New York by means of cabled messages sent in secret code. , The police finally obtained a key to the code and by the simple expedient of sending a fake message arranged a rendezvous with the New York representatives. The trap was sprung lodav. two iiicii drove nr to the meeting place ami went promptly seized by thw police. One man was wounded in a brief revolver light which ensued. "The ear contained more than £25,000 worth of heroin, opium find morphine. In the men’s lodgings wero also discovered a large assortment of needles and syringes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18504, 17 September 1934, Page 5
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158£25,000 DRUG HAUL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18504, 17 September 1934, Page 5
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