Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-11 | Page 7 | Death of Paris Dancer Results from Drug Use

DEATH DETH OF PARIS DANCER DACER FROM DRUG RESULTS USE Collapsed on Dance Floor Tragedy Is Followed by Raid on Dope Sellers By Newton C. C Parke International x Nea e i Service cr ice Staff Correspondent Cor Cot respondent l Paris Jan 1 lo The Thc The death under tra tragic lc circumstances of or once a veil ivell el known Paris Parl actress has crystal- crystal used ll public attention on the thc drug lruS evil l. e with the thc result that the thc police arc now JOW making wholesale arrests of oC vendors of or cocaine morphine and heroin Six years ears a ago o Criqui arrived in Paris from a provincial town an orphan seeking work She obtained employment employment employ employ- ment as a n chorus girl 1111 but advanced so O rapidly that in less than two years she shewa h wa was one of the stars of or the Paris concert concert concert con con- cert halls hals Then she began to lose loso her sprightliness and finally disappeared disappeared disappeared from tho the stage staSe altogether Tho The theatrical people downtown heard hearl that she sho was proprietress of a rendezvous 1 In Montmartre for or gamblers who played j I only for heavy stakes and that she was was' making a fortune Once or twice a month she dined alone at one ono of oC the thc I big restaurants near the tho opera and ant al always always nl- nl ways was departed alone In a big limousine A few nights ago ao Criqui entered the I ramous fatuous Bal lal dancing palace In I Montmartre on 01 the tho arm rm of or a slender swarthy youth evidently of or Spanish extraction They ordered a bottle bottlo botlo o of I wine and be began an dancing In the midst of ot a wild fox tox trot and with the eyes ees of or half hal the spectators on her Criqui suddenly fell fel to the thc floor In a swoon She Sho was carried to the dressing dressin room but died without regaining conscious conscious- ness The rhe police est In Investigation showed that death leath had been caused b by an overdose o of oC morphine and that another show girl Irl known on the sta stage e at had given Iven It to her liar was first hel held on a h homicide charge charre but finding that she could be not convicted tho the po police police po- po lice lard laid a new ne charge charbe of trafficking In iii iiiI II drugs druS I rugs I rho Tho following night raids were made mallo nil all al over o tho the city In one big restaurant In the heart of ot Paris a captain of ot wal waiters r and anal several waiters working under tinder unter him wore were arrested as drug ru ruen von ven I dors dor dorl It I was proven that thai the they had luul made large larse unas of or mone money selling Co co- co calno calito callO principally to 10 women patrons Several other r raids In tho the dh district brought rought Into court court owners of ot I drug rug stores stores' and ant tobacco shops Otto Oro I book dealer who conc concealed cocaine In Inside In- In side shale the covers 15 0 o of a certain certIn hook book whose name was wax supposed to be he l known only lo to drug users user who were all al rl right hl was wu arrested arrestee and I hea heavily T fined