New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-29
Cocaine Fiend Confesses
BurgIary--Says Mates
Took All Loot.
SETS POLICE TRAP
TO AID CHILDREN
Narcotics Sold to School Pupils
Youth by Hold-Up Act
Gets Morphine.

Do,octives conducting the drug cru
code had a new angle OF the traIlc
called TO their attention yesterday
1onfessed cocaine fend admitted 10
tbon, that. unable to buy the drug TWO
mon Gave him SO, and nerved by tne
nocaine under Their direction, ne
robbed a drygoods store, the men tah-
inc the proceeds of the burglary
Sbortlv after o'clock yesterday
morning a Young man, who the pollce'
in order to shield his identity nave
christened John Doe" walked INTO the
first branch detective bureau at follce
Ueadouarters. and after being prom
ised protection, told the poilce ne
could lead them to men who were SUN
dealing in narcotics.
al don't care what they sell 20 peo-
ple old enough to take care OF tnem-
selves" Doe" said in answer 10
question as TO why he wanted 10 pe.
tray the dealers, "but it's snane "
see them selling the stun 20 schooi
children to make future 'cokies'
He then told the detectives nov
Abraham Lefkowitz, Of lao west IiLVn u
Street. had given him $40 to buy COKE
after he had promised TO do as Lei No
WITT asked. Filled with the drug. Lel
kowitz suggested the breaking INTO tne
drvpoods store of Abraham HorowltZ,
at 625 Broadway. The burglary hetteu
SIS in silks and $4,000 in dress GOODS.
Lefkowtz took the goods, according
TO Does" statement, and turned theH'
for a consideration. over to AorahahI
GlosqaII. of 527 West 15lst Street, who
is said TO conduct a drygOods store IN
Newark Detectives last night visited
GIosoall's home and there found, they
allcge. the goods described by Doe.
Roth Glosrall and Lefkowtz. who we're
present when the detectives called
we're arrested, charged with receiving
stolen goods.
Earlier in the day doe" had taken
the detectives to 10th Street and
Lenox Avenue. and when he offered TO
buv cocaine from Phillip Lewis, Of 40
Ludlow Street, with two marked bills
given him b. the police Lewis toId
him to go to Fifth Avenue and 1l6th
Street. There. Lewis, accompanied by
three other men, passed the drug to
Doe" All were arrested and held
'2ter in $1,000 bail for an examination
Friday. Lewis, according to Doe is
the man from whom he bought the
cocaine with the money given TO HIM
Dy LeIhOWllH'
Early yesterday morning. Thomas
Green, seventeen years old, of 2l2
Front street, prompted by a desire 10
share in the big profits gained by the
sale Of narcotics since the dealers
have been frightened by the activity Of
the police. walked into the Good
Samaritan Dispensary. 10 Essex Street,
and holding two clerks at bay with a
revolver, stole an ounce and half of
morphine valued at So. He sold the
drug for SIS.
Jacob Pereira, the superintendent.
about to enter the dispensary, saw
Green. who was former employe,
with the gun and his two assistants
against the wall with their hands above
their heads He rushed to the Clinton
Street station. but when he returned
Green had left.
A Few hours later one of the clerks
saw Green in front of the building and
notified the police. Detectives arrested
him, and they say that after admitting
the hold-up Green told them he had
stolen the morphine to relieve the suf-
fering Of some friends in Grand Street,
and at the same time make a little
easy money"