The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-18
Another ''Hop Joint" Raided
BY Authorities and Three
More Alleged Drug Fiends
Arrested.
DINGY DEN FOUND
ON NEWMAN'S HILL
Woman Threatens to Knock
PatrOlman Down With a
Club and One Man At
tempts to Escape.

| Suspicious of the police that the
opium traffic is firmly established in
Richmond were again confirmed late
yesterday afternoon by the discovery
of a hop joint" on Newman's Hill,
West Richmond. A raid was made
Guilty in securing entrance to the
house, and three negroes, Ed Ander-
son. Clarence Washington and Ella
Washington, were arrested, Washing
ton after a chase to the c. & o.
railroad bridge.
! Nearly one hundred empty half
pound tins of the drug were found
also a small quantity of the ''cooked'
opium, which had been removed from
| the cans and prepared for smoking.
: No pipes have yet been discovered,
! but two or three pipe stems were
! found. Chief Goodwin and Officers
| Wenger and Vogelsong, who made the
raid. say the Newman's Hill opium
! resort was the worst dive ever raided
! in this city.
! Another interesting discovery made
! by the police at the opium joint was a
trunk partially filled with women's S
new shirt waists and other garments,
some with the price marks still on
them, and several pairs of mems shoes
! which had never been used.
Eight Fiends Arrested.
Within the past two months eight
/ colored opium fiends have been ar
rested in Richmond. Two were or
dered out of the city, one escaped from
! the county Jail, another paid her fine,
after serving month, and four are
now in custody.
A careful investigation is to be made
| to ascertain the extent of the opium
| habit in this city, with the end in view
| of ma king a determined effort to stamp
out the evil.
Ella Washington, when Office Wen.
ger burst into one of the first floor
rooms, showed fight. but the sight of
revolver had soothing effect on her
i and Anderson. Washington almost
fell down the basement steps. and
emerged through secret door open
ing on the steep river bank. Boys
saw him trying to make his escape,
and their cries brought Officer Nogel-
song in pursuit. He captured the
fugitive after sharp chase.
Has Bad Reputation.
Ella Washington has very I'M
savory reputation. She has hitherto
been known to the police as an 'alley
! worker" holding up men after night
| fall and picking their pockets. She
| was arrested once for holding up an
! Italian She has also been in other
trouble.
Last year she was ordered to leave
the city, but apparently failed to do
SO. When Chief Goodwin learned she
! was living in a house on Newman's s
! Hill, he determined to raid the place
Arriving at the hill late yesterday
afternoon. the officers ascertained from
neighbOrs that two men and woman
! lived i'll the suspected den, and only
! left it after nightfall. The police
then went to the house and knocked on
various doors demanding admission.
! No one responded to their demands.
/ Then Wenger took a screwdriver and
removed some screws from door
! hasp. only to discover that the door
was bOlted within
! Chief Goodwin then found that the
glass of a second story window had
, ben partially broken out. Goodwin
and Nogelsong showed Wenger up to
! the window. and he soon removed
enough of the shattered pane for him
| " Sel llllO TIE DtlltlliS. NooiN III dil'i
Nogelsong stationed themselves in
front of the two first floor doors.
Wenger descended the stairs, but
| found the stair door latched He put
a knife blade through the crack, lifted
the latch and walked into a room reek-
ing with opium fumes. and so filthy
as to be indescribable. On stand
near bed was an ugly looking re-
! VOlyer
Wenger is Cursed.
A volley of curses greeted Wenger,
and the Washington woman seized a
baseball bat remarking that if there
was going to be any fighting she in
tended to take a hand in it. She
also told the officer he would be shot,
and as precautionary measure Wenger
drew his revolver, pointing it to the
floor, and ordered the woman and the
two men to seat themselves. He was
obeyed, except by Washington, who
dived head foremost down a basement
stairway. Wenger yelled to the other
officers to take him, but they did not
know of the embankment exit from
the house, and the man probably
would have made his escape except for
the warning cries of some small boys.
When Washington ran out of the
house he was barefooted and clad
only in a remarkably filthy pair of pa
jamas.
The woman, who says she is Wash
ington's wife, was wearing night
gown, and Anderson was attired only
in an undershirt and his trousers when
the raid was made
Prosecutor Keller is making thor
oush investigation of the case today
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