Show CROWD or Of SLAV siv S TO O OUNe UNe DRU fOUND OUN if f MESS R J 2 L Through a a. letter received by the k dc c cera rs s of the Juvenile court a band of 1 youthful cocaine fiends has been cred It is asserted that at least leant twenty ty y boys have beco become ne addicted to the U U habit in the past two months mouths and that most of the boys are over 18 years old fr and therefore cannot be bo held to answer tp tho Juvenile court rf v After fter a careful investigation the officials 1 o of the Ju en court declare they thoy Ut t have I oa e V discovered vered that one ono drug store tore has bas been bee selling most of the tho cocaine cocaine use used by tho the bo boys rs U Several eral days ago hgo Chief Probation U Officer Charles B. B Hahn Halm received the theU U following letter Jetter J v Will Will call at you ph please ase L East Brigham street and ancl get Tan Tan- gier tier C Cox Cdx x II He lIe has finally gone to nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing from the use ot of cocaine Ho Io is is herein here liere in in bed under the influence e of it jt t. t Knows nothing If you will come at once you will find him in bed bedI I want him sent to Ogden as quick as possible You know he has never never been discharged from your court yet Plc sr attend to this at once Z T. T COX COL Finds Boy in Stupor Sir Mr Hahn called at tho the place and found the boy in bed Ho load had b been en there for two days und under r the influence of the drug U From Freon loins him Mr Hahn learned the n names es of several other boys who ho were addicted to the habitAn habit An investigation disclosed th the tho fact I that a large number of boys bOJ's who are not employed as 0 messengers but hut are hanging about the place are addicted to the habit It was WItS found that they yere were over o the age that made them charges s of the Juvenile court U Several days later the father of the Cox boy says sas lie discovered him lying j jon on a bench in In th theA A D D. T. T office offic again I under the influence of the drug U It is now a It serious serious' question as to what we f shall do with the bo boys s declared declared de do- dared Mr Hahn this morning They They are arc too old to be brought be before ore the Juvenile court The habit is growing fast among them arid and we are powerless to do anything unless we we have them arrested for vagrancy r and then take cave care of them How Habit Started I have havo learned from several of the messengers that a boy froth from Los Angelea Angeles Angeles An An- geles started th the habit here I tried t to help the Cox boy bu but he told me use he would hel help himself and when he got ready reany to quit he would do doso doso so The matter is lii now in the hands bands of f Judge Gowans and h he is trying in some someway someway way ay to get the boys in a position where they can b be taken care of I know of three boys who are addicted d to the habit Something will have bave to be done shortly for them but just what it will be I am unable to say at the present time |