The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-28
HOP F|ENDS BOUND OVER.
Judge Sanders Will Leave the Opium
Cases to the Next Grand Jury
and District Court.
ATTORNEY Nolan Presents a Strong
Case Against the Seven
T;ends.
Or,,,, Sinking Said to be Spreading In
Helena Among Both sexes-HoW the
Dru. is Used.

The opinm cases we're on trial yesterday
before Judge Sanders. There were two
white men and six celestials on
trial. The court room was filled
with saffron colored heathens and
a sprinking of white people, and
among the interested spectators was
preacher of the gospel. District Attorney
Nolan prosecuted and Col. Botkin appeared
for the Cinnamon. The white men who were
CAUGHT in the place "hitting the pipe' are
we'll known walters who gave their names as
Williams and Wilson. but neither gave his
right name.
After long and tedious trial the whole
outfit was bound over to await the action OF
the grand jury, their bail being fixed at
$50. All Hop the proprietor of the joint,
had two charges against him, one being
that of resorting to an opium JOINT, but this
charge was withdrawn. All Hop said he
had smoked the poppy seed for quarter OF
a century and could not stop at this late
day. and didn't think there was any law
that could conf pei him to desist.
The white men had no attorney to defend
them. taking their chances on the outcome
of the Chinese cases. They testified that
they were in the joint only for the purpose
of hiring cook. but the Chinese palor of
their countenances and the dull norld color
OF their smelling apparatus was conclusive
proof that they are ''fends.'
The ELOQUENT Col. Botkin made an earnest
and prolonged plea in behalf of his clients,
and he hurled latin quotations at the court
without stint. He scored the chief OF
police for intruding upon the sacred prem
ises of an individual He quoted from
Lord Beaconstield who said that his home
was his CASTLE which neither king nor
thief could invade without being chal-
lenced, but when the English nobleman
made that remark he had not thought of the
Helena chief OF police. Mr.. Nolan, with all
the oratorical eloquence he could command
and big words SAID that LORD i5eaconshe 81
did not contemplate that such degraded in
situations and outrae.s upon society as
opium Joints should not be broken into and
the community ridded of them. II
was necessary to secure evidence
and this could only be. done
place. Officer Beary went to the
front door and Drury to the rear and the
latter found the defendants lying on hunks
smoking opium. The supreme court OF
Nevada had ruled that the very presence OF
opium smoking apparatus in house wal
proof conclusive that the practice was IN
dulged in there.
opium smoking crime was unconstitu
tional and quoted authorities to show tina
any man might get drunk and not be ar
rested for it as long as his conduct while
intoxicated did not create disturbance
And upon his own premises man coult
smoke and drink as much as he saw mt ant
no officer would have right to convic
him.
The court finally decided that there wa
sufficient evidence to warrant retaining tn
defendants, and they were bound over a
stated.
victions in these cases he will have accom-
plished more than any other attorney ha
done in Montana. On several occasions
arrests for opium smoking have been mad
in Butte, but after preliminary hearing
the prisoners we're invariably discharged
on the plea that the drug was smoked OF
private premises, and by technlcalltles o
various forms the law was overridden unit
the police concluded it was useless to raj
the dens any longer.
"a 1t is said that the opium smoking vice
spreading with alarming rapidity in Helen
and it is not confined to the totally de
praved classes. and that the number @
women who indulge in the drug is SUI
prising.
It does not take over two or three trials
become accustomed to the manner of smol
ing, which is by no means as simple 9
smoking pipe of tobacco. The opiul
comes prepared and looks muck like THO
OOl6S6SSs htStIAc III dA Cd6y pooVOAO u
smoker takes a thin wire and dips it int
the opium. small portion of which sticl
to the wire. This is next held over s1na
lamp and soon becomes baked. The vii
is constantly revolved while the drug
being baked, and to make it hard 1t
rolled on the bamboo until neatly. Ell
circled around the wire. Next the wire
quickly thrust in small hole IN the pip
leaving the opium there. The long pipe
then taken in the mouth and held over Il
lamp for a second to light the opium. al
the "fiend" gives a long draw. 1t Is sa
that the operation has to be repeated abo
six times before the desired effect is reach'
when the victim dozes to sleep i'll realms
fairy fancies.
It is said that not less than fifty wome
many of them young girls, in this city a
victims to the degrading vice. Among Il
women it is customary to have Gilman,
call around and prepare for the debauc
Should this raid have good results the r
lice authorities have their eyes on seven
eight other joints which will be raided al
every effort made to break up the practic
at least among the white people of Helen
It's effects are more deadly than whisky al
its seductiv eness is only exceeded by t
difficulty in breaking off the habit.
THE DISTRICT COURT.
Proceedings in the district court yeste
day were as follows:
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