The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-29
SLEUTHINC OBSOLETE;
FILES AND INDEXES
TRACE CROOKS TODAY

DETROIT, Mich.-Old sleuth is
dead.
Nick Carter has gone into retirment
Sherlock Holmes is passe.
Sleuthing today is just another bust
ness, a business of files card cata-
logues and system, and it may be
followed by any person who has good
common sense.
Joseph s. Dederich says so. And
Mr.. Dederich ought to know, for he Is
chief of the Federal narcotic squad,
operating in Detroit.
How They Conceal 1t
The narcotic bureau, in the Pest
office Building, houses collection OF
articles used by drug smugglers to de-
neive Federal officers, and these arc
Giles range from } woman's high heel
slipper to bulky dictionary. Drugs
have been smuggled into Detroit by
means of these articles, Mr.. Dederlch
SAYS. 1t required real ingenuity on the
part of the Federal officers to detect
| the drugs concealed in most of the con-
| fiscated articles.
When Martin Goldberg, deputy Uni
NCOAA
/ Federal prisoners to Leavenworth pen
! itentiary three months ago, one of the
| special deputies assisting him was
! handed a cigaret by a prisoner con-
! victed of violating the Harrison anti
narcotic law. After smoking It the
! deputy became i'll.
! Investigation revealed that 1t con-
| tanned cocaine A search was made of
/ Of a
cigars given the prisoner before he
| left Detroit. Enough of the drug was
! found concealed in the tobacco to last
the addict more than year.
Trails Fashionable Woman
Mr.. Derrick uncovered one of the
cases that baffled Federal investiga-
tors for many months when Detroit
received most of its illicit drug supply
/ from Canada, by trailing a fashion
| ably dressed woman who frequently
visited Windsor. He saw her leave
; the ferry boat at Windsor and visit
the home of the drug fence" When
/ she left she led brindle bull dog that
wore a brilliant-hued blanket. The
woman was stopped when the ferry
| reached the foot of Woodward avenue,
and a matron searched her. fruitlessly.
woman was a drug smuggler and he
trailed her to her home in fashion
able neighborhood.
He introduced himself to her as she
was about to enter the house, and
while he talked the dog brushed again
st Mr.. Dederich's trouser leg. The
narcotic chief felt something bulky
concealed beneath the blanket. He In
/ nd n
drugs.
He arrested the woman and event
ually broke up a clever ring of drug
smugglers.
The bulk of smuggled narcotic drugs
comes to Detroit now from the East
Mr. Dederich says. Drugs in Canada
sold in illict channels at such exh0rb
liant price that It is cheaper to impor
European drugs struggled into New
) York and other Atlantic ports on pass
enger liners.
Various Devices
= One woman, until her arrest few
months ago, made frequent trips be
, tween New York and Detroit. Wnel
: she was arrested she confessed tina
> she carried contraband drugs cor
ceaIed in the silk lining of a handbag
= AIlolheF CdIIIeu uLu6S Ill Ilie lalo
, heel of a slipper. One drug smuglel
posing as a book salesman, carrie
: drugs wrapped in small package
: and inserted in a book, the leaves 0
a which had been cut away, leavin
edges only to deceive government Of
/ ficers.
Embossed Easter cards and brit
day greetings, slit into two pieces, tn
| drugs inserted in the cavities forme
c by the embossed Communications, an
/ the pieces pasted together, are a FAY
: orite hiding place for drugs SINUS
: glers have been known to even spl
:, cigaret papers to insert drugs b,
4 tween the sheets.
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