Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-31
.EX.:CON|||VIC:'.I TRIES
T0.sMUG|G;'L|..ED|:RUGS.
plt Opium and Morphine Fll1 IN Co.
ooanuts and Paper Bags
For Prisoners.
ARRESTED WHEN TRAPPED 2 e: ]
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released From State Prison Saturday
ARRESTED WHEN TRAPPED 'E:E
released From State Prison Saturday
Morning. Ho Finds Himself Be-
hind Bars Again Sunday.

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I For attempting to smuggle drugs Into
the state prison. Fred Brown, hobo
I yeren,an-convict, citizen of the world
4 with unlimited demands on humanity
Il maintain him without honest labor.
l. in the county jail Brown was re-
leased saturday morning from serving
wears sentence in the Utah state
od.on for burglary in the third degree
At Nephi, where he INDUCED In stop
over from transitory residence in a
box car Instead of profitng by his
prjson detention, Brown Immediately
proceeded to violate the law, and the
law laid hands on him. He hard put
j up,a job with two fellow convicts to
smuggle iii q lot OF opium and NOR
4 phine, which were to be distributed
4 among the men inside the walls. The
h scheme was to conceal the drugs III In
4 nocent looking fruit, and had the largo
amount of dope" reached Its destinn-
lion, there is no telling what might
have happened, for there was $3.50
worth Of stun concealed in the pack
4 ages.
Brown left the prison in the morn
| Ing with new suit Of clothes. IS the
warden gave him, and S. moro that
he had brought to the prison with him.
Instead Of leaving town, or looking
for work, he laid out $3.50 in morphine
and opium. The man was Ingenious,
his dodge being very cleverly worked.
Presents OF fruit are allowed to be sent
I'm to prisoners. cursory examination be-
ing made to see there Is no contra
band matter concealed therein. Brown
took advantage of this. He secured
three coooanuts which he emptied OF
their milk. filing the cavities OF two
with opium and the third with NOR
.phine. Then as II this were not enough, i
ne fixed up two paper bags with false
bottoms within which was concealed
enough sulphate or morphia to put the
entire prison population forever to
sleep. and In the bag receptacles proper
he placed innocent looking apples and
bananas.
URE EXAMINES THE FRUIT. Y
6 The fellow then took car to the
prison. arriving at o'clock. with his
burden. which he handed to Deputy
Warden Ure with the modest request
that the refreshments be handed to tho
convicts he had promised them to. Mr.
ure told Brown to be seated, as he
looked the stuff over. The coconnuts
did not seem TO him Just right, as the
eyelets had been tempered with, and
brown. sticky, suspicious looking fluid
exuded thercfrom. His suspicious were
corroborated as from n slight hole in
1ne of the paper bags white powder
trickled out. Deputy Ure sized up
ahe situation straightway. and bluntly5
ytold the ex-convict what he was trying
ito do. and that the Zig was up" Brown
Sllttered an oath. as he exclaimed. s.I'm
caught, But that stun cost me ss.5o!'3
sssYes 1t will cost you also six months
Brown declared that tho Officers thera
could not detain him. The deputy
warden telephoned for tho sheriff.
Brown saw It was no use trying to es-
cape with armed guards outside. so no
waited until the sheriff appeared with
q pair OF handouts, and was marched
to the county Jail.
, :, w. Pratt is much incensed over
ms attempt to smuggle deadly drugs
into the prison. He has no doubt the
nreak Of several years ago was due an.
tlrely to the drugs secured by prison- A
era He says that when conyicts all
themselves with these drugs thew be-
come come insane. and will run right into
the guns of guards who would be COM
PEELED to shoot them down. II all that
cope had got inside. there would have
oeen mob OF maniacs to take care OF,
and the lives OF not few OF them
would probably have been sacrificed in
restoring order.
SOUGHT LEGISLATIVE ACTION.
, The warden calls attention to the fact
,nat at the meeting OF tho last legis-
azure he urged the enactment of a law
making smuggling drugs into the state
p y felony, but could not convince
ny W. members of the Nervousness Of the
olHehse. They persisted in holding that
s gig months in the county jail would
suffice. But, inasmuch as such acts
V the ono Just narrated. IL successful,
would result In q number OF deaths, the
warden holds that making this snug
slns felony Is none too severe. He
Sunday that one of those In
a aot looking cocoanuts might con-
sain hitroglycerine whose explosion
would create widespread death and de-
,..uclion at the prison: and there nre
y now there who would not hesitate
- resort to Just such things.
/, ""taon Pratt closely questioned
hree Of the convicts for whom the dope
,na fruit We're billed. One OF them
,onvlnced tho warden that no was in
'oeeht, and had only asked Brown to
, .hu 'lm some apples. But that tho
'.ner two were guilty, although thew
n,nn everything, there was not the
!,sn.est doubt. They are sullcn. hard
o y Characters. Sheriff sharp tried
.h r,srfet out Of Brown Sunday night
,nste ne got his dope, but tho fellow
eiused to give any Information. Brown
' a. ti T. a prisoner at San Quentin,
~ = VIVA ,is known as, a rounder, No
i ! err, ir,it will be admitted to the prls-
f N .ess from persons known to tho
ence. s'hN Z eo 'iil'tui