The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-23


guessing
time he has been arrested many times
all over the country, has forged checks
and stolen, all to get money with which
to satisfy his craving,
"When these dope fiends are ar
rested and deprived of the drugs they
become very sick and it is often times
necessary to administer strong heart
stmulants to them to keep them
alive.
"Every conceivable means is used to
smuggle drugs into jails and prisons.
Friends of the dope fiend' will take
an ordinary tobacco sack, sealed. They
will remove the label, cut slit In the
sack, take out some of the tobacco and
in it's place insert n quantity of NOR
phine Then the label will be re-
placed. The sack looks now and un-
opened.
"Jn another instance, what was ap-
parently a new clean towel was sent
to prisoner 1t had been soaked In
solution Of morphine so that when 1T
reached the party for whom it was IN
of it in water, dissolve the morphine,
and drink the potion.
Food which contains drugs IS sent
to the city Jail A lump of sugar will
sometimes be found TO be saturated
with solution of morphine.
Ingenious Smugglers.
"Drugs were smuggled into the state
prison at one time by means of base
ball. The cover had been removed, the
drug placed inside and the cover sewed
on again. The baseball had been
thrown over the wall Of the prison.
1,,-f
supposed that the prisoners had been
playing ball which was allowed and no
more was thought of it until 1t was dis
covered for what purpose the ball was
really used.
"Two kinds of dope are generally
used They are the derivitives of opium
and cocaine. Sulphate of morphine is
used by means of hypodermic syringe
Wherever the drug is injected sore
appears. This is by far the most dan
gerous drug and the users of it are
called in the vulgar yernacular 'hypo
men, Sulphate of morphine is also
dissolved in water and taken internally
However, the fiend seldom uses but one
drug.
1.-THE prepared opium for smoking is
made from the crude gum opium and
only an experienced hand can prepare
it, IT was at this work that Louie 10y
was caught when he was shot. When
the opium is prepared for smoking 1T
is dark brown viscous material. The
smoker takes a small quantity of it on
the point of n needle shaped instru
ment and cooks it over a small lamp.
When it is sufficiently cooked 1T Is
placed in a hole in the bowl OF the
nipe the size of a pin point. The
smoker gets from this preparation but
two or three draws
"The bowl of the pipe is hollow and
the ashes which collect in the bowl are
called 'yen shee.' This is eaten and
it's use becomes a habit as with the
smoking opium. A man who smokes is
called hop ficnd,'
FPerhaps the easiest for the fend
TO break himself of is the cocaine bab-
chloride is snuffed up the nose. A man
who uses this is called a coke man
Difficult to Convict
"The idea is very general that it
should be very easy for the police to
locate the sellers OF these drugs, that
| is, those who are selling in violation
of the law, but such is not the case,
"The fend protects his source of
drug. supply. There are number of
physicians in Salt Lake who make
| to fiends. There is n drug store in Salt
Lake, although at the present time VIC
| cannot fix the crime upon it, we have
reason to believe is disposing of large
quantities Of drugs in violation of the
| law.
"During the past six months very
many opium smoking establishments
have been closed up and this depart
ment continues and Will continue to
wage a ceaselcss war against such.
"The proprietors Of these places are
very careful because they we'll know
the danger in which they stand and
when a raid is made by the police il is
often difficult to find and arrest the
man who is guilty Of the felony
Speaking of the opium smoking
pipes, Chief Barlow said that most OF
them were imported from China aud
that like the violin, they become sea.
soned by time and use, until the old
pipes are very valuable.
The chief said that there was Il Ger
tain amount of opium smoking on the
part of business men; that they smoke
two OF three times each day at theil
homes. These men; he said, very sell
dom smoke TO excess and do not in
crease their doses. The ordinary
"hypo man." said he, takes enough
morphine ut one dose to kill two OF
three ordinary meu and this because
they have been continually increasing
the dose since they began to use the
| drug.