Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-11
ARRESTS VERIFY
EXP OSURES Of
DOPE PEDDLERS
CurIey Stinson, Companion Of
Ruth Clark, Among Number
Indicted by Federal
Grand Jury.

Indictments against Curley Stin-
son, negro. 2l6 North Thirteenth
street, known to the police as king
!. of Dope Pcddlers," and IA other per-
ii sons yesterday morning were re-
Il turned by the federal grand jury
for violations of the Harrisonedrug
II Almost Immediately following the
return of these indictments. the po-
\ lice arrested Raymond King, dis
charged merchant marine sailor
from San Francisco, with nearly
4 $500 worth of morphine cubes in his
pockets.
Caught Making Sale.
William Mashier, roomer at the
O'Brien hotel, Fourteenth and
( Douglas streets, was arrested with
Y King. Detectives say they caught
the pair making "a, transaction in the
i sale of the dope. King told the de-
\ tectives:
Il came here because I heard I
could make easy money selling
locke"
IL He said his home was in St. Louis,
mo. kilograms and letters found in
his possession showed that King OBJ
Y tanned the drug in San Francisco.
\ Detectives searched a seabag be-
] longing to King. No drugs were
Hound in the bag.
VI Stinson is regarded as the sue
cessor of ohnie Moore. who amass-
Iied a fortune selling morphine and
cocaine here, and who now is serv-
ling sentence in the federal prison
Eat Leavenworth. He is the sweet
sheart of Beatrice Wilhelm. alias
Ruth Clark, who recently made
sensational expose of the Omaha
sdope ring through The Bee.
king" Of Peddlers.
Stinson lived with the Wilhelm
Z girl at the Thirteenth street address.
According to witnesses he sold more
morphine and cocaine in the under
world than any other peddler. The
white girl, confessed addict, is ac-
reused by girls in the county Jail OF
Selling dope for Stinson.
u The police and Stinson appealed
Ito the girl, after she had made her
charge that the dope ring was pro-
stected by police officers, to
lrepudiate her statement. According
& to her own statement, policemen
waited on her and threatened to
throw her in Jail and run her out
gof the city if she did not go back
son her statement.
Following Stinson's appeal to her,
together with the threats made
against her by the. police, Beatrice
SWilhelm was taken to the office of
Police Chief Eberstein, where she
was persuaded to sign two affidavits
denying the statement she made to
"a Bee reporter in the presence OF
witnesses.
Attacks Detention Home.
The Wilhelm girl made an attack
on the Womens' Detention homeland
later was waited on by DR.. Jennie
Callfas, one of the founders of the
home and secretary of the Public
Welfare board.
Il DIR. Callfas first held conference
with Chief Eberstein and was con-
Minced that the girl was innocent of
Wrong doing. She then set about to
defend her against the numerous
charges brought by persons who
have seen her take dope. and others
who have declared they have pur-
chased it from her.
II do not believe she uses the
stuff. and I am convinced she does
not sell it," said DIR. Callfas. There
are no marks on her body. and am
sure she does not use morphine or
cocaine. / believe Beatrice has told |
The truth because she signed the af-
6davits.
Y Other indictments returned were
against Lulu Graham, Clarence
Green, Dick Kimball, Argetta Pal
3nler, Lon Carter, May Bradley,
James Blodsoe, Garland Graves
Victor Bloom, Louis Filley, George
HRigsby, Jesse Douglas, E. H. Van
Hoeson and Lynn Anderson.