Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29
POLICE DISCOVER
PLANT WHERE DRUG
FIENDS GET DOPE
TenderIoin Squad Run Into
Place Completely Equip
ped for Making Products,
Three Men Arrested.

A verltable habit-fornIns drug manu-
featuring plant, with machinery. mixers,
walls, rstorts and compressors. used, the
police believe, in turning out morphine
and heron pills. has been unearthed at
All North Eighth street by special police
men OF the Tenderloin. Three meu sus-
pected OF operating the place were ar
= r>9igned today in the Tenth and Button
wood streets station before Magistrate
Beloher who held them IN 800 bail each
for further hearing on Friday.
The men arrested are James Shay, 2t6
North Tenth street, and George and Louis
Ransden i8l North Eighth street, in
whose apartments the apparatus was
found,
1t was bad enough, the police said 10
zee an old and hardened character SUI
fsrlns from the effects OF a lifelong
habit but when those arrested were fTe-
queutly young men and women, who
were seen wandering about the streets
h.eary Of eyes, with twitchlng muscles
and smaciatsd by the ravaSas or drugs
the situation became more serious.
There have been many such cases our
ing the past week Young people never
before known 10 uss dope were brought
to police stations suffering from It's #
fects I'VE were unable until recently
said the police, TO tell where they got
IL but our suspicious were later directed
against the three men who We're ar
rested"
Special Policemen Ksarse, Titus, Barry
Clark and Earnst We're detailed 70 watch
the suspects The net around the three
men tighJcned last SUNDAY when well
known users Of drugs were seen In the
vicinity of i3l North Eighth street.
While three o' the five specials sur
rounded the house two Of -aeu entered
second duor rear found Shay and the TWO
Rausdgls covering among tna.. ma
Ghinery and bottles
Even the detectives We're staggered at
tho size of the dope plant. Modern ma
c1iuerv. which IS believed r0 have been
used d compress pills from powdered
heroiu ana morphine, was installed N the
room. There were Jars containing sus-
plcfoIs looking drugs and many walls and
mixers stood bout on shelves, -estits
and mortars were included In the layout.
When tho police entered the room its
three occupants made a dash for liberty.
bur their ATTEMPTED escape was Of snort
duration. NiIh tine misery Of drlE vt
TINS only TOO plain I1 their minds tine
police made short work of the capture
and the three suspects We're landed "a
cells AT the station house
They refused 10 saw what they were
doing in the place or whether tine ayout
for manufacturing pills was theirs All
powders and liquids were sent to city
Hall 20 be examined by chemists. while
the pill machine was taken TO the office
of HauCe Brothers & White, manufacture
ing druggists. who pronounced IL
modern device
'The polio have no doubt that the
city chemists viii discover morphine
cocaine and heriou ~ the rars sent 20
them for examination. In the meanwhile
previously arrested victims pf the drug
habit VIII be brought as witnesses 10 the
further hearing of the three accused men.
III IS thought at tbsJ time some of them
'Tiil Identify shay OF the two kausuelIs
IS men who sold them drugs.