New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-07-02
UNCONSCIOUS IN AN OPIUM JOINT.
TIE POLICE FIND A MAN WHO DIES IN THE HOS
PITAL-IDf NTIFYING HIM.

Three Cinnamon, who were unknown to the
police yesterday hired the first floor of the old two
story and attic house No. 80 Cros0y-st. about
week ago and wcnt to work to start an opium den
there. They moved a small load OF lumber INTO
the hallway and fitted up number OF hunks In
the rear room. Italian families who occupied The
rooms I'D stairs paid no attention to the Chinamen
but they noticed hat white men and women went
to the rooms on the first floor at night after the
hunks had been built Policemen Oh that post ap-
parentiy were not aware that a joint had been eS-
tabshed In the house. About a. III. yesterday
the Cinnamon and two or thee other persons who
had been In the rooms all night suddenly left the
house, taking with them all their personal baggage
and leaving the doors unlocked. Soon afterward
Of the Italians heard groans III the back room
on the first floor and they cal led III Policeman Grey
of the Fourteenth Precinct. In one OF the hunks
the officer found unconscious man about
uncomfortable position. HIS clothing was in
anoth part of the room. As there was no money
IL the pockets the officer concluded that the man
had been robbed aud deserted while inscDsible
There were some letters written in 1873 by Sam
Davenport" tn his mother from the country. but
they threw 10 light upon the man's identity. Sew
ninth SITS ndca, cd that he was driver or groom.
On the back OF one card was written the
address. "No. SO Cfosby-st" A business card OF
+. j. Keller. the lawyer. at No. $40 broadway. was
in the mans pocket also. 49,
An ambulance carried the man to st. Vim
cents Hospital. where he died before noon gn
surgeons at the hospital said that his death
had resulted from opium poisoning. but they
were not sure now tue OPIUM WaS duHiustrIeu
Tne police locked up the opium joint and took away
the Keys Late in the afternoon two Cinnamon
went into the Italian beer-shop IN the basement OF
the house and talked with the Italians there 1t was
sud that they not the proprietors OF tIe JOINT
but spies who had been sent To inquire about the
man who was taken to the hosptal. young man
whose pallid face aud dull eyes marked him as an
opium smoker spoko to the Chinanen, lie after
ward said to a TRIBUNE reporter. The man who
was taken from the JOINT this morning had trance
because he was not used to smoking. could have
brought him around all right IN ten minutes by
giving him something TO make him yomit, II mad
been there. The doctor who was called must nave
man had been partially drowned. l don't know
who the man was. The joint has been. running
about week | left soma things of
nv own there the other highland Iscamc here to
find out what had beco ne of them"
1t was SAID that physician living somewhere in
the ne ghborhood had been called TO look at the
UNCONSCIOUS man ia the morning. lie told the Chi
nalnen that the man was dying. and advised them
70 call in the police. They paid hun 81 AID sent
OPIUM implements and-ciothing. lhe1polIce could
not find out yesterday who the physician was -.
The body was identified last night as that OF
Samuel Davenport. the OF livery stable keeper
in Harlem. The letters found in his pockets were
written twelve years ago, when samuel was q lad:
The young man had been her wild III hishabits OF
laIe Sing lone Of No. 4 Mott-st., was arrested by
Captain Murphy, and Identified Dy the agent OF tho
building. where the JOINT was hired, as the man
who secured the room.
SILVER STOLEN FROM PRESIDENT HUNTER.
Detective Sheldon, of Eightietl-st. and Third
ave-. yesterday afternoon was talkngto Waterman
Michael DOody about sneak thieves, the house of "a
lumber merchant named sImonson, at Eighty-sixth-
1t. aud FOurtl-ave., having been entered the night
before and $50 silver teapot stolen: Suddenly
shs. at hs tom
youth was dashinQ down the street. and another
young man In the garb Of a butcher was doing his
best 20 overtake the fagtve who n Lees than three
man. the detective and the bulcher-bOy. The girl
said that she was employed by President Hunter
Of the Normal College, and that some sllverware.
Somc of which was in the possession of the prs.
0nor while more of it lay the sidewalk belonged
y the family. Mrs. Hunter came out Of her house