New-York tribune., 1922-02-20
Raiders
Find Lists OF
lsiicE, Addicts
Crash Into GORGEOUS Den
With Axes and Arrest sSfu-
pcfcd Smokers: Shots
Exchanged VIII, Fugilives
Woman Leaps 10 Street
Umbrella Fails as Parachute
and She H. Injured; Al
tack 3 Chinatown Places

Fire axes were used TO batter down
doors in two drug raids near China
town by Federal and city narcotic de
tectives carly yesterday morning. IN
ono handsomely furnished apartment
tho detectives found drug vcnders
m memoranda bearing names and ad-
dresses or women and men of wealth
and sociai prominence These names
are such as to cause d national sensa-
ton should they ever be positively
identified az users Of or barterers in
narcotic drugs. Eight suspects we1e
arrested. Drugs worth $4,000 were
seized
Women and men engaged in wild
scramDles over roofs and down fire
escapes. Two we're injured in leaps
from fire escapes to the street. The
rsiders were fired upon BY fug tives
during one Of the ra ds. Bullets struck
the shoe Of one raider and knocked the
hat OF another
Director Ralph Oylcr of the Federal
Narcotic Division. VINO directed the
raids refused last nignt 70 make nublic
thc names Of socially prominent people
found on memoranda, pending further
investigation. He did say, however,
that he had evidence tending to chow
that well-known pugiNst was the
owner Of q lease on one Of the places
raided.
Stupefed Addcts Taken
The agents said they believed The
names on the memo oranda were wealthy
patrons of drug vendeis frequenting
the place, and that some Of the promi-
nent ones might actually have smoked
opium in the resort. They said that
while observing the place for days be
fore the raid they had seen limousines
and taxicaDs draw up in front Of the
entrance and we'll dressed men and
women enter the house.
Director Oyler, accompanied by
Agents Manning, Passeta Connolly AID
Mccormick and Detectives Graham and
Murphy of Dr.. Carleton Simon's staff,
vent to a tenement in Mulberry street,
on the edge Of Chinatown. The raiders
were paired off and stationed on the
roof in the hallway and in the street,
while Director Oyler and Agent Man
ming went to the entrance Of an apart
ment on the second floor.
When Director Oyler knocked panel
slid open, only TO be slammed shut
again. Oyer and Manning then began
to swing the axes. The door, rein
forced with iron bars, did not yield
easily, but the agents finally forced
tEFIl way III. our men cI4DeAeN Win
drugs were found. At the Charles
Street station they described them
selves as Ernest Jinro, chauffeur.
Second Avenue; Michael Orappolio
1877 Hester Street; Felice Fiorentino
237 East Nineteenth Street, and James
Costo, of 1899 Forty-second Street,
Brooklyn.
Oriental Luxury Everywhere
The rooms Of this apartment were
luxuriously furnished. Expensive rugs
covered the floor and the tables were
inlaid with mother of pearl. Lights
were covered with rose-covered Gre
tonne, while portraits Of actresses
odorned the walls.
Three complete opium layouts, with
thousands Of dollars worth Of prepared
gum opium, were found. The opium
pipes were carved and studded with
brilliants On a table in q corner.
shielded by a curtain, were found the
memoranda bearing names OF promi-
nent people.
From the Mulberry Street address
the agents went to an apartment house
in Mott Street. Again the raiders
were denied admittance and again the
axes began to crash against door
AS the axes resounded woman was
was clad in a pink silk robe Raising
an umbrella to use as parachute she
leaped to the sidewalk. The umbrella
turned inside out and the woman fell
heavily at the feet Of two waiting
raiders. She was badly bruised and
was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where
she was identified as Ethel Kelly.
forty-nine years old, of 275 Broome
Street.
The woman was followed in her lean
by John Buff, seventeen years old. o.
| East broadway. He, too. was in
lured. His wounds were dressed by
the ambulance surgeon. who pro
nounced him in no danger and deliv-
ere, cred him to the arTesting officers.
Frank Russo, 221 Mulberry Stree,
and Peter La Rose, PIP Mulberry
Street.
Second Place Il Squalid Zen
This place was in contrast to the
nrst raided. 1t presented scene of
squalor to the raiding detectives. 1t
was fitted as an opium "ioint." with