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Show NARCOTICS HELD in mm Cocaine Taken Is Valued at $6900; Owner Believed Under Arrest. Completing what is said to be tho largest larg-est haul narcotics ever made In the Inte'nnountaln rosion. twenty-three ounces of cocaine, valued at the drug-venders' rate at $0900, was found yesterday by Captain o? Police Henry C Taggart, Deputy Dep-uty Marshal Dave Thomas and William H Davenport, chief of the secret service In Salt Iake, In a safety deposit vault In a local bank, where It Is thought to have been p'.aced by John J. Boyd, now under arrest. Thla Is :he. second riclsuri o.' rirt;g3 mace by Captain Taggart and Mr. Davenport Dav-enport during the last three days, the value or which will reach Ir.to the thousands. thou-sands. The first was made Monday night, when tho apartment In which Boyd was living was eearched by the officers, who found forty tins of what Is believed to bo opium, they said. Shortly after this seizure seiz-ure Boyd was arrested by Captain Tag-gart. Tag-gart. Police Sergeant C. 'W. Pitts and Mr. Davenport at the rooming house. Tho drug finds were made after a "still" was located by Captain Taggart, Inspector Joseph Burbldfre and Officer T. W. Mllner at '1469 Stratford avenue, and the alleged operator. Thomas Jones, alias W. C. Bird, placed under arrest. Information In-formation gained on the arrest of Bird led to the finding of etchings and dyes which were used, say the authorities, by Boyd to print counterfeit revenue seals tor whisky bottles. In the same cache where tho etchings and dyes were found the officers reported thev found the tins supposedly filled with narcotics. The next morning Boyd was arrested. Fallowing the arrest or Boyd k was learned that ho had only recently secured se-cured a safety deposit vault In a" local bank. An investigation of the vault revealed re-vealed the hidden Quantity of cocaine, the authorities say. W. C. Bird, the first of the pair arrested, ar-rested, was charged by Mr. Davenport yesterday yes-terday morning with operating a distillery distil-lery without a license and with defrauding defraud-ing the government by using counterfeit revenue stamps. T? Is hearing was fixed for December 8 and ball was placed at 51000. which he immediately furnished. J. J. Boyd waa charged, according to Mr. Davenport, with printing two different dif-ferent kinds of revenue stamps. He failed to furnish ball, which was fixed at $$000, and !p held in jail. Mr. Davenport said that Boyd would also bo charged with having cocaine in his possession, although the complaint had not yet been filed. J |