New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-31
Police Raid Two Expen-
siveIy Furnished Flats
She Offers Gems.
EDWARD WINTERS
TAKEN PRISONER
Barrels of Narcotics Captured
by Sleuths in Brooklyn
Cooperagc.

Two extensively furnished drug den'
we're found in West 35th st. yesterua'
afternoon. One, the police alege'
owned by Edward Winters, "e"''"y
fr;ord Of "Boh" Vernon, hacker OF
rho Johnson -Jefries fight. Mrs. hS"'"
vendel. according to the police OWNS
the other.
Winters. well known sportsman
once owner Of racehorscs and repu'eu
% no worth 100000 had an apartment
IN tho ton floor Of the house. II was
hung with costly Turkish rugs and ''u
beautiful opium lsyouts. winters 1--WE
in Riverside Drive. He had more ina"
q ooo on him when arrested. A SUIT
ease full of opium was found IN the
West 35th ST. place.
Mrs. Mendel, who was wearing more
than $4,000 worth Of jcwelry' wh'c"'
the notice say. she offered for her Tree
dom. would not tell whore she iVeo.
Her husband. she said is memoer OF
tho firm Of Cook 4 Co., lobster mer-
chants. Of Rockland, Me.
AT go West 4lst ct. Carrie Williams
.vcntv-Hv.. and with her LOUIS baper
twenty eight. who lives next door were
arrested last night. In the woman 8
,nartnont Vas an ingenious device by
which a dozen persons could partahe
NJ cocaine. All four prisoners Nc'c
locked IN at the West Both 81. station.
nv these four arrests Detccti'eS
Crossman, Johnson. Schaudcl anu
pvron have brought their total OF drug
ooses IN DOB since the first OF the year
IT, all tho cases there have been con-
,.;ct;o,e o. pcr cent OF tho accused
nIcading guilty. The prison terms
amount to I75 years and the mes 10 n
total Of $4,000. Among the prisoners
66 pcr cent were men. wo WEI
doctors. two nurses, twenty drugsis''
and ono a prison keeper
Nero than $4,000 worth or drugs
yas scized last night in a RAID when m
Police Inspector Formosa. WIN ~
,ectives O'Calahan and tassullo' MACE ,e
on a cooperagc works At $40 ana o1'
Iorimcr st.. Williamsburg. Two ar
rests were made. Two o'"ei ''
being sought III. .b,, 4b;,
II believed u! INV pun
.oorcraoo was the headquarters Tor
the distribution Of drugs IN Nl,ilenis
hrro Tho drug habit in that dlstr,ct
has become 20 extensive that even !ne
scbool children are affected, cocaine
.nd beroin being sold TO them in the
.trce, as they go to and from thelr
Two davs ago Detective Sheehey
a. H., cooneragc dressed as a
Iahorcr He got a job there, and soon
sor. Tho drugs arriving IN barreis'
The raid followed. ~.
barrel Of cocaine. parre, y.
heroin and ter packets Of motph,nSJ
we're seized. The men arrested anu
charged with dealing in narcotics were
lanes Russo. twenty-five, OF - l'n
ors :. and John Drumm, twenty-three'
~ oO4 81 Nicholas av., both Wllllams-
burg The two men wanted are known
and will bc quickly found the ponce
said. ..,,cod
Twelve drug victims were sentenced
in Special Sessions yesterday BY JUS
tees Russell, Salmon and hernochAn
seven. among whom were two women
were sent 70 the penitentary ior
wear, and five for siN months
Those given year were ahd orc.
Woods. AZ west oVlh So '"i no
son. 270 Bowery; Daniel simmons o5 -
West 6lst st; Thomas Ntcnle, -
East 10Th St. Mae Matthews, 40 West
82d st.: Pearl and Walter Elsey. lao
West 32d ST. All were heroln hends
except Woods, who smoked opium.
The five men given six months each
were John Mccormack, l09 East 9tn
St; Roy Nash, 3S9 Bridge s.; Ray
con,inS 024 West 3Sth St; Otto
Wedeneyer, 1927 Jackson St, Hoboken,
and John Montague, 800 West 40th st.
All were victims TO heroin and cocaine.
In Special Sessions, in The Bronx
Justices Zeller. Collins and Mclnerney
sent John Smith, 745 East l55th ST.,
to Harris Island for six months. lie
was found with twenty-five packets OF
heroin. John McGeraty, 4Ol East 10th
St, was sent to the Metropolitan Hos
pital as a morphine victim.