Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-11-30 | Page 1 | Drugs Stolen by Wholesale

DRUGS STOLEN BY WHOLESALE Detectives After Thieves in New York City; Con-fession Con-fession is Secured. NEW YORK. Nov. JO. Drugs worth from tlS.000 to SEO.OOO tave been stolen from the wholesale chemists In New York I during the last few months, acoocdlng to detectives who arresVed two men on the confession of a third, accusing one of having hav-ing assisted in robb'ng a branch taou . ' hers of the Malllnckrodt Cfcemical company com-pany of St. Louid. ; In court yesterday the prisoners d- j scribe'l themselves uu Louis Gear and Edward Ed-ward Smith. From Joseph Hogan, a ron-fetsloii ron-fetsloii is allegr.l 1 1 have hwn obtained Th latter, was h :d ss a witness. Hoga:t i wat i.jnrator cf n telephone switchboard in the oAive "f the Maltinckrodt Chemical company. Tne others say they are drug cltTks. According to the detectives. Hriran i said t have declared that his friendship for Smith Induced him to enter the storeroom store-room of the company by which he wbm employed and abstrar two cases rt goods. . one containing cocaine and the other loillne. The plunder netted Hogan. according ac-cording to his confession. Jn and th j f oods were transferred by Smith to Oear j or a consideration of ISO. Detectives have been after drug thleen. for several months. An Immense amount of stolen druK property has been disposed j of. so they declare, to retail druggists.