Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-14
"LAUNpRIEs" SELL COCAINE
Nefarious Business Conducted in Cit
les Under Guise of Honest Callinss.

Nefarious Business Conducted in Cit
les Under Guise of Honest callinss.
Chicago Sept. 14.-Cocaine. freely
dealt out to its victims over the IRON
ingboards and clothes-horses of oS
tensible laundries and the brass and
lacquer of protested oriental curio
shops turnout Chicago's west side dis
trict, at the sacrifice of the most
sacred mementoes and treasured trinh-
cts of wives and mothers. is one of the
respectable methods" of purveying the
drug, brought to the public eye thru
the disclosures of the Currer commits
sion. Publishing their preliminary find
ings for the commission in the Sep
TENDER number of Everyday Life"
John Day, and Charles w. Collins, spe-
cial Investigators. write concerning the
efforts OF the Chicago police of the
West Side district to conduct a sys-
tematic crusade against the dealers in
cocaine:
After checking the drug store trade
they found that the fends We're still
getting coke in large quantities, and
then close watching of the furtive vic
TINS brought to their attention the den
of Jim Hing To the casual passer-
by. it appeared to be harmless Chi
nese laundry, and in full view, thru
the front window We're the parapher-
MALTA of Mr.. Kings ostensible trade.
But his real business was conducted
in the room behind a partition and it
had earned for him the sobriquet of
The Rockefeller of Dope BY purvey-
ing cocaine to the inhabitants of the
y, !, IN cd
thousands of worse than tainted dol
lars.
so one night the signal of the Sc
eret electrical bell at Kings door was
given as usual by a chronic dope field.
but behind him stood two detectives.
and watching the rear was a patrol
wagon load of policemen The place
was carried with quick rush as soon
as the door opened for the stool
pigeon of the police, and Hing, with a
loathly tribe of 'dopes' who had assem-
bed for a happy cocaine party, We're
1 hauled away.
| out of that den the police carried
I two of Kings laundry sacks filled with
various kinds of dope. the innocent
looking bottle of cocaine being in the
majority a moving van was needed
/ however to carry away all of the other
/ evidence of the Internal traffic that
Hing had been carrying on for months.
The place was Literally cluttered with
small household objects. clocks. vases,
brio brac, rugs. pieces of furniture
and iewery that had been broughs
there in exchange for a ration of CO.
came, too recently for Hing to sell.
"And in that collection were twenty
wedding rings.
when Hing was tried the wife of a
small tailor, who lived nearby, was one
of the witnesses. and told a significant
story. She said:
"'When my husband learned was
using the stuff. he wouldn't let me
have any money. Then I began to take
things from the house and give them
TO the Chinaman for coke. Once
traded my pocketbook, muffler and oul
clock for 25 cents worth. Then 1 trad
ed him my wedding ring. l have beer
doing that for more than a year, s.nG
so have many other women
Ibid this belong to your asked the
judge holding up small gold locke
and chain.
Tears came to the wonan's eyes a!
, she looked at the trtnket. and for fe"
minutes she was unable to answer
Then. sobbingly. she said:
THAT was the last thing. I waited
: until 1 couldn't stand the desire an!
longer, and then gave it to Hing TO
cocaine. 1t was my baby's.'
''She was broken hearted, yes-bu
when she left the witness stand, sh
attempted to steal one of the bottle
of cocaine, placed upon the judge
desk as exhibits. To round out her his
tory, it may be added that the break
= ing up of Kings drug trust did no
4 cure her of her vice: that her husban
Z finally deserted her. her baby was TAX
en- away by the juvenile court an
placed in an institution where it woul
4 get good treatment; and that she her
X self disappeared, swallowed up in tn
Nowhere of cocaine.
z another glimpse of the nightmar
u was seen recently in the nunicips
"a courts of Chicago. Before the jude
: charged with disorderly conduct, az
x peared a man half stupefied wit
ii, drugs He was dressed in the filth
= rags of a battered tramp, Yet in h
w possession were two diamonds, a gol
m watch, and a deposit book from tt
x Franklin Bank Of New York, shown
: balance of $1,000. With the cocair
- fiend's insouciance, he stated that
-. =. had been wealthy and had spent NJ /,
~ Of his money in ten years addictic
- to the drug.
'Im on my way from New York
Denver" he said merrily, and if
T. ever get there j expect to go UP in
the mountains, where there isn't al
cocaine 1 was full Of good intentio
when I left New York, but now L
full of coke. Let me read you all abo
., it judge. I keep a diary; a kind
1 dope book, you see.' Interested in t
n case, the magistrate permitted him
read part of his record of enslayemel
The last two jottings he had ma
were: ...... Got up at a. m. A
breakfast and started out. Got drah
of cocaine near Twenty second a
State streets for s.. Blowing up stro
when / went into a faint BE
asleep since a. m. day before yeste
day. Medicine came all right, also t.
crystals in a pack. All fixed for sc
Feeling ane'
"This jargon will have to be tran
lated, for part OF it is in the We
lnacular Of the fiends. He bought