The copper era., 1911-02-03
OPIUM SELLER
 IS CAUGHT HERE
 WITH THE GOODS
A Consignment of Twenty Nine Cans Found in Young
 Woman's Suit Case.
CAME HERE FROM FL PASO
Waived Preliminary Hearing and is Bound Over to Await
 Action of Grand Jury.

| A consignment Of twenty nine cans
 of opium, believed by the officers to
 have been intended for a Chinese
 opium dealer in Clifton, was captured by Consta ble Johnny Patty, last Fri day evening shortly after the train
 arrived.
 The opium was brought to Clifton
 by young woman who left Fl Paso
 Friday morning. The opium was
 arrived in Clifton contained twenty
 nine cans of the dope valued at not
 less than twenty five dollars per can.
 The case contained thirty two cans
 when it left Fl Paso and it is believed the young woman disposed of three cans while en route. Although the
 woman's ticket was purchased in Fl Paso direct to Clifton the suit case was first checked as far as Lordsburg and was rechecked from Lordsburg to Clifton.
 On Friday Constable Patty received a telegram from El Paso to watch out for certian woman who was eX- pected to arrive in Clifton with other source the officer also learned that shipment of opium was due to arrive in Clifton, so when the train arrived Constable Patty was at the depot and had no difficulty in spotting the woman he was looking for. She was apparently about twenty years of age, dressed in a neat blue tailor suit and wearing large black picture hat. She was of slender form and her complexion indicated that she also was the victim of the opium habit. Upon alighting from the train she made her way quickly from the depot to the Clifton hotel where she registered as Mrs. Dorothy McCleave, check to the porter and ordered her suit case delivered to the Clifton hotel. Before the suit case was de- livered however, the officer was fully acquainted with its contents.
 Becoming impatient the young lady rang up the depot to enquire the cause of the delay of her suit case. Upon it's arrival at the hotel Con- stable Patty also appeared in the lobby and as the woman selected her suit case and started for the stair way the officer laid a detaining hand upon her shoulder. She was indign- ant at the idea of arrest, but when the officer demanded that she open the suit case, she weakened and offered to divide the profits on the sale of the opium with the officer in exchange for her liberty.
 On Saturday evening Special Internal Revenue Officer Ayers arrived in Clifton from Fl Paso. It was known to the officers in Fl Paso that the woman, who had been under surveillance for some time, had left Ell Paso for the west. It was soon learned that she left the train at Lordsburg and officers at Morenci and Clifton were notined to be on the watch for the woman suspected of selling opium. She was caught with the goods in her possession.
 On Monday evening the woman was given a hearing before Court Com. missioner J. J. Kelly at which time she waved examination and was held to await the action of the grand jury under bond of S250.00.
 The woman under arrest is known as Mrs. Dorothy McCleave, alias Mrs. Dorothy Blondell, alias Miss Dorothy Clark. Her partner in the sale of I opium in this country is man named | Thomas McCleaye who is at present | under arrest in Fl Paso. He was re- gently arrested in Ft. Worth, Texas, on a similar charge, and was out on | bond awaiting his preliminary hear Ing when he and the woman | attempted we pull off another deal in this direction. According to Special | officer Ayers the pair are both old | at this game and it is said | this is not the first trip of the woman to Clifton on a similar mission. The opium is smuggled across the line in Fl Paso from Juarez and this consign- ment was billed to Clifton and the woman was used as a means of de- livery, and but for the vigilance of the officers, would have made good.
 The young woman is a pitiful human wreck. Her form is wasted and already her mind is wandering. She talks with a studied effort and there is a sickly palor in her face testifying to the long use of the Chinese drug. She claims to be the wife of McCleve but the records of the internal revenue department do not bear out her assertion. In a letter written by McCleave he states that he ''doubled up" with the woman in Toledo Ohio in 1908 and they have been together ever since. McCleave at that time was hop fiend and the girl who cast her lot with his soon