New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-04
DRUG ARRESTS
SOLVE YELLOW
HOUSE MYSTERY
Slcuth Finds Haven for
Victims Behind Sign OF
"Dr. Oswald"
FURTIVE AUTOS
AROUSE SUSPICION
Girls. Women and Men Captured
in Early Morning Raid on
Fast Side Dwelling.

Tho policemen on post noticed an I'M
usual number Of automobiles slip quiet
~ I'D 10 the house. All hours OF inc
night they came. even in the small
hours Of the morning. stcalthily NOV
ING machines. from which women. Tor
'hc most part. stepped out furtreIy
and hurried up the stems. The door
always opened. seemingly automatical-
". before them. so that they dld not
have 20 linger on the stoop.
II was an unassuming looking house,
not one that would ordinarily attract
such unusual numbers Of automoblle
folk The policemen noticed night al
ter night how the cars slipped IN, dis.
charged their furtlye passengers and
clided away. leaving sometimes men;
but more often women. young and old
women. and sometimes young girls.
I, became the mystery Of the pro
cinct. that yellow frOntcd house with
drawn blinds in Fast Fift:-sixth Street,
lust of Lexington Avenue. Al last
one Of the patrolmen reported the my =
terry 10 Inspector Bolon Of the tltth
District. No Inspector likes to have
mystery in his district. 80 Bolon as
signed Constantine Naimoli Of his staff
70 investigate II.
Busy "Dr. Oswald
The first thing Naimoli noticed whom
he looked at the yellow house a. l"'
Fast Fifty-ffth Street, was the sign
Or. Oswald" in the window. He rang
the bell and asked for DR.. Oswald.
large women with hair strikinGy blond
on the periphery, but rather muddy
colored at The roots. told him the doc
tor was not in.
when can see him." Naimoli said:
81 am very sick and | have been told
he is the best doctor in the neighbor-
hood"
But Naimoli could get nothing more
definite than that the doctors prac-
ticc took MIN to all hospitals. and 1t
was hard to say when he would be IN
his private office. Naimoli called sew
eral times. but could not find the doc
tor home So he reported that to In
spector Bolon.
Good" the inspector said. THAT
house is wrong. Get the evidence. Get
il good. so we'll be sure and won't be
busting into an innocent house.
Lurking in the shadows Of the sub
way construction going on there,
Naimoli began TO watch. He saw those
automobiles slip up and the women
hurry into the house. Within four hours
he counted thirty such arrivals. He had
his own suspicious as to what II all
meant, and one night they were con
firmed. He saw woman. we'll known TO
all detectives of the drug squad as
Kitty. notorious illicit vender of
drugs. out on bail from a recent arrest,
enter the house.
Detective Nabs Houseful.
Naimol needed no more He went
quietly 20 all the policemen on neigh
boring posts and closed them in. Some
he placed in convenient shadows IN
front Of the house, others crept into
the yard in the rear. and one even made
his way to the roof by the house next
door and sat by the scuttlc like cat
by mouse hole.
Then Naimoll went up and rang the
bell When the door was opened he did
not bother about tho amenities of ask
ing for DR.. Oswald. This was about
$3.50 o'clock yesterday morning. Nalmoll
walked right in, and found the house.
as he expected. filed with choice
company Of drug fends some white
faced and frightened, others dreaming
pea ,efully, oblivious.
The house was str,wn with empty
drug bottles and containers. He arrest
ed six women and two men and took
them TO court on charges of having
drugs in their possession. One Of the
women said she was Mrs. Katherine
Murray, owner of the house. Nalmoli
said he found heroln and cocaine in
secret pocket % her skirt
Others arrested gave their names as
Mabel Travers. 1875 East Twenty-sixth
Street, and Mabel Grand. 223 East
Eighteenth Street. Joseph Rogers, who
said he lived at Woodside. Long Island,
was charged with interfering with the
entrance OF the police.