The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-15
HUGE DRUG FENCE
LAID BARE IN RAID
Trail Followed Eight Years
Leads to Residence District
in Philadelphia.
Special Despatch to THE Sun.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IA trail fol-
lowed eight years through the tender
loins OF several cities to-day led to the
confiscation of thousands of dollars
worth Of drugs captured in one Of the
biggest dope" raids ever made in Phil
adelphia.
Breaking into a modest home in the
heart of respectable Logan, detectives
seized narcotics three times greater
in quantity than the supply of the COM
bined drug stores of the city. arrested
Max Freedman, found PROSTATE on a
bed from the fumes Of opium, and
smashed at Its inception a plot to dis
tribute Wholesale Illicit drugs in for
tune making quantities.
Freedman, in bis earlier days known
as Pug Clark. a prize fighter of repute,
was arraigned before United tSates
Commissioner Long in the Federal
Building this afternoon and held in
$500 bail on charges of dealing in
narcotic drugs and being in possession
of opium He was revealed as the
owner of twelve city properties assessed
at $4,000.
Prosperity symbolized by an up to
date high powered automobile is what
led to the trapping of Freedman. For
eight years detectives of the city vice
squad and agents OF the Internal Rev.
enue office had trailed the ex-fighter
through the vice dens and dives of New
York and Philadelphia, confident that he
was growing rich in evading the law.
Four times his places were raided. but
not shred of evidence was uncovered
which would incriminate him.
Then chance and the memory OF
Nicholas Kenney, Police Captain, in
advertently entered the case. Kenney
on his way to his home In Logan one
day was attracted by the glitterng
paint and dashing lines of a pr 81 z
automobile. Scrutinizing the driver of
the vehicle he recognized Freedman, a
man whom the force had been unable to
get" He noticed Freedman stopped
his machine before house In North
Smedley street. above Rockland. leave
II and enter the house. Freedman In
such a respectable locality made Kenney
suspicious.
Shortly after midnight Saturday
morning detectives and Federal agents
surrounded the Freedman home. One of
them, armed with a Federal search war
! rant. raped briskly on the front door
| for admission. woman came partly
down the stairs inside and then dashed
back again. The door was smashed in a
| moment later and the detectives
| swarmed through the place,
Balls of gum opium were found in the
, room, on the porch roof and in the front
yard. where they had been thrown at the
| first alarm. Under the keys of the plano,
| beneath the carpet, in flower pots and in
| the rafters OF the cellar the raiders
| found drugs. A portion of the wall
gave way and revealed a secret safe.
| electrically operated, which contained
great quantities of heroin and cocaine.
Included In the loot were more than
| 10000 morphine sulphate tablets, four
one ounce opium bricks. seven pounds OF
gum opium, 5000 morphine atrophine
tablets. 100 morphine cocaine tablets,
one and a half ounces of liquid CO.
caine, four and a half ounces of CO.
cains In bulk and one ounce OF smoking
opium A qquantity Of loose heroin.
wrapped in an ordinary newspaper, was
found concealed In flower pot