Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-05-06
FEDERAL AGENTS AID
LOCAL POLICE IN RAID
IN FAYETTE Street
Get Complete Opium Smoking
OUTFIT Two CoIored Wom-
en- Arrested

In raid conducted in the tene'
ment house at 294 Fayette street last
night detectives and uniformed pa
trolmen, together with federal
agents, confiscated complete
opium-smo oking layout and arrested
two colored women under charge
of violation of the federal act con-
cerning the possession and use OF
narcotics.
The two prisoners were arraigneG
before United States Commissioned
John A. Delaney this morning and
placed under $500 bail each to ava .
a hearing before sthe Commissioner
next Saturday The formal charg
Is violation. OF the act of Decembc
II, 1914. and is made by the federal
authorities. The two women ars
represented by Attorney Walter
Rielley and were released when the
secured the required bail.
Last nights raid was made posi-
BILE through Detective Michael Mus
ka who detected the odor of tht
opium pipe when he was in the tene-
ment house two weeks ago on an.
other case. Detective Muska is spe-
cializing in narcotic work through
instructions being received at policf
headquarters in New York and ow-
ing to his training there he was abls
to catch the pungent smell OF the
burning opium as he passed Through
the building and recognize 1t as tbs
forbidden drug.
Acting Captain Lawrence A. Long
in charge OF the detective force. noi
in touch with the federal authorities
at Newark when he received Nux-
ka's report and when operatives OF
the government arrived here and in
vestigated. they substantiated Mus
ka's suspicious.
The police and federal agents
visited the Fayette street house
about o'clock last night. Sergeant
Frank Kasprzak and Patrolmap
Michael Kilmurray took UP positiors
in front and in back of the building
while Detective Lieutenant Joseph
Gutowski and Detectives Michael
MIska and John Murray. with two
federal men. searched the fats on
the ground floor at the left of the
entrance, and the second floor nat
on the right hand side OF the stair
way.
The layout confiscated was found
in the second floor residence. 1t
was not in use at the time but Lucille
Christian. a colored woman thirty
one years old, and Ethel Jackson,
twenty-eight. were taken into Gus
tody charged with possession of the
outfit. The arrests were made by
the local police. while the federal
men filed the complaints against the
prisoners.
Included In the opium smoking
material seized was a bamboo pipe
about eighteen inches in length, a
tray. q quantity of opium, scrapers
TO clean the pipe, two lamps employ
ed in heating the pills" and a coll
lection of other bottles and contain
ers, all of which have their uses
in preparing opium for smoking.
The outfit is held at the police sta
tion TO await the disposition of the
case.
Last nights raid was the firsi
drug case the police have had here
recently and it is their intention TO
continue Investigations of suspected
drug users. Police departments all
through the country report an in
crease in the drug traffic in seaport
towns and Perth Amboy is proving
to be no exception. 1t is probable
that the two colored women win be
held for the federal grand jury when
their hearing is held and then the
case will be taken out of this city.