The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23
]RUC F|ENDS
BOUND AS
| WITH CHAINS
orrors of Habit Which De-
stroys Mind and Body
vividly Discussed by
Chief Barlow.
TI,Y FEW VICTIMS
\ CONQUER CRAVING
'ohlem Is One That Gives
Officers More Trouble
Than All Others
Combined.

Iu Combined.
kF THE lure of the east, Of the
|I white faced king and queen
who preside over the "Gate OF
the Hundred Sorrows" the
through which the average citizen
,ar sees and of the world beyond of
n. :cb he never dreams, in word, of
and Queen Opium-on this sub
|. MI Chief of Police S. NJ Barlow gave
| INTERVIEW yesterday afternoon. He
L-H that he was willing that these
E[ ops should be made public, not to
Isfy the curiosity of the vulgar IN
riding them the nostalgia of the
uerworld. but that the good citizens
h. rht know of one Of the principal so
|rssX evils with which the police de-
|vu| <kment is battling; an evil which
Gl, Ads its tentacles into the heart Of
4 best society; an evil which causes
~. clergyman or the banker to pray
n n his favorite son or daughter may
an evil which walks hand in hand
|tk II all crimes, vices and degradations
rs which in a trice sends the victim
snnning down the steep tobbogan
h sb TO destiny many times worse
|ha& death. :,
|A!a% hen Louie 10y was killed by De-
e i've Cleveland week ago, many
|. lived that the Chinaman s offense
E.r( (trivial, Following is an interview
Ia rh Chief Barlow on the subject,
pium:"
PH yer of the Drug Habit.
The people don't know" said he,
nat the drug habits amount TO. The
IVY M the opium smoker is a thousand
|sisE away from the home of the aver
|put' smoker, and yet it is actually only
fralp blocks distant, Yet the average
III possibly in his entire life does not
|,ii,..|o in contact with the effects Of the
+ nIm habit About 80 per cent Of the
Enue prisoners in the city Jail are users
|hY rugs, and about rs per cent of the
tSHuen prisoners belong in the same
pyYgory.
a: hat does not sound very grave,
rs Of drugs but this is what it
" MS. that the man or the woman or
|m boy or the girl has severed every
j. u which ties them to decent society,
No. they spend their lives in the dark
II dirty alleys and dives and shun
btHIstreets and the daylight; that they
| ~, commit any crime TO obtain the
EA TO which they are addicted; that
Yin they have once given into the
on, they will never stop worship
him in this life, IT is only in ex-
ely rare cases that the victim
" sEs the drug aside
i. Iou may tell the opium users by
h a complexion, 1t is white and
ES ny. In almost every ease, regard.
OF age, the frame is almost
N pea of flesh because they eat but
kg little. 1t is not uncommon. but
|cd lly occurrence that such a bundle
pones is gathered up in some filthy
and brought 10 the station. If
inject morphine by means of
Hl1Frdermlc syringe, their bodies will
|'' mass OF running sores. A leg or
tm may be twice its natural size,
0.s Dlue and festered into running
Ers put of all semblance Of a human
4, FOR Indescribable.
az VI description Of the victims of
mS, nofphlne habit is not to be at.
[ihct "eu. 1T would not be proper to
- sueh things down on paper for
b suE reading.
|esa seems strange to say that these
[Na ~ cores, these most depravcd of
4 ren' come from good families, in
y " cases but such is the truth.
NJ g!rl Is years old was brought to
Pb' station one November. She was in
Esp opium sleep which almost re.
~ IN her death She bo l>no,, fn,o1
~ ~ ot the lowest dives in Salt Lake.
ecnE ner arrest her father called at
- {e.aton, He was a prominent citi.
aes.5S5 oalt Lake and the girl be-
hI'kea 10 one Of the best families
Ky III Ell VIC Kept her in Jail for two
nay,ftna eiS, of nearly that time. OF course,
fi%' rao no drugs while in Jail and she
W iaHe on flesh and to look
III aE ne"ithY' She seemed in great
Eeo nave forgotten her past life
~ pc willing to give up the habit
iimc came around and
term IN jail was nearly finished,
"A Lgatchts requested that She be al.
nm 70 be released and spend Christ
~ -. her home. | would not allow
IL 20 home alone, but sent for
n ~ Aer brothers TO escort her TO
Htatiou. WV
r, Un New Year night, a week later,
Sas found dead in low dive. This
kL0 t''ry oil the drug habit, Death
|(kEt fo0 greatest consummation to be
~ another occasion younp man
Boe vas under the influence of
ice was arrested and charged
ls"gtancy. He was given sixty
|,y s n tho city Jail. His father WIS
- ka church official who lives in
|e 70 Lake, The parent came to me
'sod mo what was the matter and
eVss 10 tell him that his son was a
ane fiend. He did not know
lon aS had Seen the boy waste away
'IG ii. ms appetite. When he had
bad di'n no what was the matter. the
aa replied nothing vet he had
Irts sar "aisted v;.Ld to the habit for over
without the knowledge Of his
ot Break Chain.
[Y&H Tx boy was kept in the iail for II
W ,,mc nn without drugs. He gained
~ n1d when he left he was new
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