Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-01-17 | Page 10 | Opium Smokers Caught in Den

OPIUM SMOKERS CAUGHT N DEN Hop Joint on Plum Alley Raided by Police and Two Arrests Made MadeAn An opium lea den at 57 Plum alle alley was raided at this morning by Officer Carlson and JIm DolI Dolly the Uie Chinese pro proprietor proprietor or of the place and Tom Boland a white man were arrested The pipes opium needles lamps and other para paraphernalia used in the vicious habit was confiscated by the police poUce When the place was raided both men were reclining on bunks about the little room and hitting the pipe An electric bell connected wIth n a wIre door mat warned the thc Inmates of the approach of the police and Boland darted through the rear door He was vas found hidden behInd some boxes in the woodshed The rh hop joint was evidently one or of orthe the t on Plum alle alley The room In which the tha drug was smoked was los fes festooned in Oriental designs and dozens of pipes or of varIous sizes and shapes were about the tha room At each bunk was a corn com layout with all the necessary utensils utensils sils for the pleasure of the in iii theIr pursuit of dreamy oblivion When thc they were wera tak taken n to the station statton Boland gave gae his occupation as a dentist They will be arraigned In police court to today o oday day the on a charge of main mam taming an opium den and the white man with frequenting the place