Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-26
EAMLANDOF
TJNDER WORLD
TOBE WRECKED
rst Move Next Thursday,
When Clark Dope Trial Be
gins in Federal Court.
VANNUYs wHETs TOOLS
By WALTER d. HICKMAN.


By vigorous prosecution of one of the
purported heads of this illegal traffic,
District Attorney Frederick VanNuys and
other government officials hope to rid In
diana of the dope traffic.
By successfully prosecuting Frank
Clark, known as Buster former ten
derloin saloon keeper and ''redlight' pol
itician of Terre Haute, Ind, and Lo'tle
Clark. his reported confederate, on
charges of conspiring to violate the Har-
rison narcotic act, the district attor-
nev hopes 10 be able TO strike the death
49, TO the cocaine traffic, which is SAID
ave thrived for some time, with
( Terre Haute as one Of its centers, ana
TO have yielded fabulous income TO the
alleged trafiekers.
In addition to the Clarks, Maurice
Chase, Frank E. Meharry ana LAZY
Rogers. who are recognized characters In
the former tenderlOin district OF Ierre
Haute, were indicted also.
CLARK and LOttie Clark viii go to trial
next Thursday before Federal Judge A
B. Anderson as the first step IN the drug
drive.
Only slight indication Of the suspected
latitude of the traffic is given in the con-
spiracy indictment
The object of the conspiracy as defined
in the Indictment against Clark and the
Others is that the traf1ckers conspired
ssto sell and distribute morphine SUI
phate a derivative Of opium, and cocaine
..hydrochloride a deriyative OF coca leaves.
Among the users and purchasers OF
#acaine and other drugs from the hve &C
sed as drug eonspirators, the lndIct-
IS ent names Frank Daley, known as
zBugs',: George ". Barrett. "Dago" Dow
s Sd nlayson and May Finlayson. Frances
rker. Louis Nelson, Peggy Nelson, VII
~ n, Hughes. Leroy Kid Gresham,
In Fl. Castle. Mark Gordon, Lilly Free
IN. Frank Graney. Estella Jackson
- &orgia Stewart and May Smith.
ETS UP ELEVEN
VERT ACTS
In its recital of the narcotic trafhc as
Rving its headquarters in the FORMER
nderlofn district Of Terre Haute, the
!. ,rSniracy indictment sets up the follow
IL eleven overt acts:
That on Dec. 80, 1918, at Terre Haute'
8ottie Clark sold to Frank, Daley
1antity Of morphine sulphate-
That on Oct so, 1919. Maurice Chase
IA 70 Dow Finlayson some cocaine ny
That on Dec. so. 1919, Harry Rogers
BID morphine sulphate to George W.
zarrett.
THAT Frank Clark on Nov. so, 1919.
I'D TO May F1nlayson morphine sui
E#8 ate ana cocaine 4AoN4bAAANs
THAT Frank Clark on Oct. 10, 1919,
We Harry J. Rogers SID
5<sAhat on April l, 1919, Frank c. Ne
harN paid Maurice Chase q certain sum
of money.
That on Oct IS, 1919, Frank E Me-
Sharry rode on a train carrying an ounce
LOT morphine sulphate and one ounce OF
*cocaine hydroehloride.
y That Frank Meharry sold TO Lilly
freeman on Jan. 2, 1920, some morphine
uIphate for 81.
That Harry J. Rogers and Maurice
-hase went TO the home Of Frank E.
= Ieharry, eighth and Locust streets, IN
Eerre Haute, on Oct. 20 last, for the
purpose Of obtaining morphine sulphate.
That Frank Clark On Oct is, 1919,
rovided a room in which Maurice Got
PM Chase sold quantities of morphine
3lphate and cocaine hydrochloride.
kThat on Sept 3, 1919. Frank E. Ne
rry held q conversation with Lottie
ark regarding Lottie Clark making
4les OF morphine sulphate.
ALLY RETURNS
600 A DAY.
4 From a reliable source it is learned
n e the Illegal sale of narcotics in Terre
ute netted between $50 and $1,000 a
when the traffic Is said to be at its
ht.
bgers and Chase have pleaded guilty
~ conspiracy indictment and are
e lid TO have provided valuable informa-
on to the government.
'< Cotton" Chase has been a unique char
Z cfer in the underworld life which held
nigh sway for so many years in Terre
Iante.
Il The election conspiracy cases showed
I'll hat Cotton" Chase was a very busy
~ Individual in the red light district when
Votes were being bought by the whole
&sale
The sweeping investigation of govern
Inent agents also resulted in additional
indictments being returned.
Il One indictment charges Frank Clark
81 ssottie Clark and Harry ]. Rogers max
ing specific sales in ten different counts
To successfully expose the dope traffi
required months Of careful and pains
~ king work on the part of government
q Investigators.
~ A dope fend or SNOW bird" as users
cocaine are popularity termed. is a
Fery clever individual when partly I'M
der the influence Of the drug.
81 at that time he is clever to conceal
&every movement he makes and obeys
|carefuIly the hidden code of rules which
4exists between the drug trafickers and
the users.
HUMAN SHADOWS
TALK BRILLIANTLY.
I have seen both men and women. with
their bodies only shadows Of their for
n mer selves, talk brilliantly to federal Of
&hcers about business, art and music and
"a pen have seen the fash OF enthusiasm
ave their cheeks as the effect Of the
lug wore away.
Weakened and robbed of their dreams,
3 - Use creatures of habit have thrown
kmselves In a writhing mass at the
,@<# Of United States Commissioner
<<k& De Randall at Terre Haute and cried
e1 to him to instruct a physician to give
NESn "a shot" while awaiting an ex-
800 nation by federal officers.
50 have seen them hurl themselves
- inst walls and the floor of the com
.<sxsz sioner's court in a frantic effort to
.&% ZEN the pang Of their unnatural desire.
z ~ efGsal Of the drug victims to obtain
Ia blot generally resulted in the drug
~ RS making q complete confession re-
- Ping the source of supply of the drug.
I 333 he exposure of the narcotic traffic next
<z in the federal court is expected to
- that st. Louis was one of the main
<y<% ers Of supply; that many fortunes
80 been made from the sale of the
az 81 In this state, and that Terre Haute
49, one of the chief centers to be sup
s&@esR is said some Of the "peddlers" dis
-< ed their movements by posing as
AZ Stk peddlers and concealed the costly
Il in carrots and turnips which they
~ s tn users of the drugs