The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-12
TEXAS SLEUTHS
ON DOPE TRAIL
Drug Orgies Abound Over
state, Federal Inspec-
tor Declares
RAID AT FORT WORTH
One Man Dead, Three Are in
Custody; Dope and Booze
Taken by Officers

uA1IAs. Texas. Feb. 11.--That
Ann. addicts of Dallas indulge In
rirbtlv orgies where cocaine is
.,iffod while the rovelers dance to
,.., music "a charged by John Il.
v,us federal narcotic inspector
s,re Inspector wells declared that
~ has conclusive evidence that Wild
Coke parties" are being staged m
r,lias and that orgies of this Kind
t,yo becn secretly conducted here
FOR months.
Much Dope Being Seized.
frpspector Wells is engaged In n
Igbt with drug violators Of this
,,7inily I'M an attempt TO stamp out
Eo narcotic evil From three to four
orrests are being made daily and
%Upo amounts Of narcotics are be-
ing seized. While IL Is said that some
tssbionable homes have been the
.ccre Of drug parties, yet Inspector
Voll4 asserts that the parties are
for the most part staged in the un-
FEDERAL agents assert that some
NJ the narcotic drugs being used in
nallas are smuEgled here from for
slgn countries. While IL is n known
fact that a major portion OF the dope
IA emugglcd across the Rio Grande,
VET custom officials have unearthed
evidence that huge shipments of
opium and cocaine have recently
neon sent TO America from Ger
many and other European nations,
and Is now being distributed through
bootleg channels.
Drug Demon Gaining Ground.
Inspector Wells declared this
morning that the drug evil is in
creasing among the youths of the
country. especially among young
girls, lie asserted that women arc
more prone to the drug habit than
, men and that the narcotic curse Is
claiming an alarming number of
Young girls. lie declared that
Young women will give all for their
precious drug and that he has in
yestigated cases whore Illicit ped
dlers Of morphine and cocaine have
collected fortunes in diamonds in
payment for narcotics. A man re-
Gently sent 10 Leavenworth federal
penitentiary from Dallas is said to
have amassed a fortune in loose dia-
mOnds through the drug trade. Fed
eral agents declare that the Jewels
were given him by young women in
habit forming drugs.
FORT WORTH. Texas Feb. Ii
One man is dead, three in custody
and $50 grains of cocaine and so
Quarts OF bonded whisky we're con-
fiscated as the elimination of n
spectacular raid by Federal Narcotic
Agent Berfenack and City Narcotic
Officer Jack Riley on the home of
Special County Policeman W. a.
Master, late Friday night.
Master had been walking his beat
In company with n fellow officer
and upon calling his home on the
telephone learned of the raid. Mas
ter is said by his fellow officer TO
have left him, announcing that he
vas going 10 n telephone to surren-
der A moment later shot was
heard and Master was found dead
with bullet wound I'm his body.
One Of the three held by the au-
ihorities is also a special county po-
lceman.
Tho narcotic sleuths are said 70
have been tracing for several weeks
the source Of narcotic supplies in
this city and TO have followed sus-
pects TO and from Juarez, Mexico,
opposite III Paso.
Master was as years old and was
recently appointed as n special po-
lc5 BY the sheriff to patrol the eN-
elusive Mistletoe heights section OF
ne city. He leaves a wife and four
sons all quite young.