THE DRUG TRAFFIC
ARREST IN PARIS. The sight of a fashionably-dressed woman alighting from a limousine outside a dingy hotel in Montmartre recently attracted the attention of a passing detective. He waited about for a time and the womfin reappeared from the hotel carrying a bouquet of violets. Later he noticed that other visitors to the hotel, including five stage celebrities, all carried bouquets when they left. The detective reported the matter to the Surete, and later the police arrested a woman living at tho hotel, Henriette Pierre, on a charge of trafficking in heroin and cocaine. It is al leged that in her room was found a largo quantity of drugs, some of it in a trunk and the rest of it concealed in bouquets of violets. Four men and women prominent in the Paris theatrical world and five women said to be well known in social circles are alleged to have visited the hotel to buy the woman’s * ‘ bouquets. ’ ’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 11
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161THE DRUG TRAFFIC Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 139, 15 June 1932, Page 11
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