The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-16
Motorcycle Cop, Disguised as Opium Fiend, Gathers
 Evidence for Detectives

Wn1te Men ana women
 from Other Cities Come Here for Deadly Drug
 Supplies Cheaper Grade
 of Opium Smoked and
 Ashes Used for Beverage.
 That the mysterious. innpalpable machinations of the rival tongs of Chinese-the Hip Sing Tong and the On Leong Tong-which shoulder for years and occasionally break forth in riot and bloodshed. have become part and parcel of the daily life of the sev- eral hundred Chinese who live in Bridgeport was disclosed today when a score of Celestials were arraigned in the city court as the result of police raids. after midnight. yesterday. upon opium dens.
 The raids were made possible through the hitherto unsuspected his trionic ability of Clifford Gorgas, the motor cycle sprinter who brings to book eutomobilists who are negligent of the laws governing that class of traffic. For Gorgas. model family man though he be. has been haunting the opium dens and Chinese restau- rants for the last week until the most ungodly hours. Only once last week did he leave the Chinese-inhabited sec ton of State street before 3 or a. m.
 He would rush like a haunted being into the places where he suspected opium was dispensed. His face. nat urally dark. was aided by artificial means to a ghastly pallor. With trembling lip and shaking hand he would ask in broken voice for the toned to find .solace, and ofttimes a foretaste of the peace and contentment they hope eventually to find with their departed ancestors.
 Gorgas first broke in upon the reg ular patrons of the opium joints early the advice of Detective Sergeant Cro- nan. to whom Prosecutor Delaney en- trusted the rather delicate task of gathering evidence of the existence of opium dens and of the sale of the poisonous stuff.
 deemed excellent authority that Chin- ese and whites from New Haven. where the brain destroying and health shattering opium dens have been sup pressed by. the police; have become they buy their 'hop' as the opium is colloouially, known. Victims of the habit are known as Troopers" or ''hop fiends" Cronan selected Gorgas as we'll suited to gain the required evil dence The motor. cycle cop was un- known to the Chinese. for they are not much given to automobiling and would not encounter the motor cycle cop in his daily routine.
 Equipped with letter of recommen- dation purportfn to come from @ mCN1- -fr appearance in the Chinese restaurants last Monday. He acquired vorac- ious appetite for all Chinese dishes. Already posted as to the names of the most familiar dishes. he ordered them with a loquacity that must have dis pelled any lingering doubts as to his being a regular fellow
 Once in tn econfidence of the Chin ese. on Tuesday he made his first pur- chases of hop. visiting both the big establishment at the southwest corner of State and Water streets, and the mer establishment embodies a whole sale grocery laundry supply house. restaurant. and. 1t is alleged. a fully equipped opium joint. Charles Hong, known in the business section of that city as the Chinese bridegroom, from only Chinese woman in Bridgeport, likewise the proud father of a prom ising daughter. Is the proprietor. Hong stands very high in the frater- nal and social circles of the Chinese of America When the Chinese of nearly s1oo,0Oo for the aid of their stricken fellows during the San Fran cisco earthquake. he was entrusted with the sum. and he made personal delivery of the same. Combining bus mess with pleasure. he stopped at Los I1s r.6 ~Insy &01 his bride whom he brought to Bridge port amid great rejoicing.
 Gorgas got enough evidence to war rant raids. purchasing opium both Tuesday and Thursday of last week at both establishments. Shortly af- ter midnight Sunday morning Detec- tive Sergeant Cronan and Police Ser geant O'Leary with a number of reg ular policemen-Gorga did not figure in the raids-swooped down on both establishments. At IF State street they arrested Charles Joe. and four men whom they charged with being frequenters. At the corner establish ment they nailed MT. Hong and 10 visitors. In each place they did not hold one or two who appeared to have just struggled in on business other than opium smoking.
 The proprietors were held in bail of $400 and the visitors $35 each. The cash was speedily forthcoming and all were turned out into the damp morn ing air, cheerless and anxious for an- other whiff at the peace wooing pipe.
 In the city court today Prosecutor Delaney charged the two keepers with three offences. with keeping opium joints. and with selling on two different occasions opium without properly labelling the. stuff. The lat ter is brought under the pure food law. so-cal1ed which was aimed at druggists but which Delaney believes is equally applicable to the Chinese opium dealers.
 William H. ComIey. IT,. former city court judge. secured a continuance in Charles Hong's case until Saturday. John c. Chamberlain, counsel for Char ley Joe. questioned the prosecution of the laundryman-for Joe runs a well established laundry in the front of his These charges were not preferred to- until Saturday. But on the charge of keeping an opium joint a number of policemen were summoned as wit nesses.
 Several policemen familiar with the locality could not swear there was anything against the reputation of the laundrymans establishment. But Po- lcemen O'Neil. and Barton testified that they knew from common report and from the character of persons go- ing in and out that the place was fre- quented by opium smokers, both Chinese and white. O'Nei1 testified that a number of white men and one