Show OSTER lUSE USE NEWEST I CRIMINAL ten Een n Stages Party at Which Victim Gets First Taste I of Narcotic E EW v YORK I Dec Dc co 3 3 A A new kind of Is now making work for tho the ice the the drug booster Jn In an an anIn In InSh insi In- In si Sh a campaign against the Illegal 3 and nd use of narcotics Commission Commission- Carleton Simon In charge of the cotic tlc division at police headquarters l come ome me In contact with a type of easy ney man hard to det detect ct In a and nd most difficult to convict De be be- be Deft ft court after he has been cap cap- ad ed Not always Is the booster or ug ug tout as he is also called In pos po- po s circles a man Often it Is a won wo- wo n across whose trail the detectives the narcotic squad travel In their rt it against drugs h he drug booster generally generall Is wise ugh gh not to indulge himself ia in the theof theof of narcotics and he is generally too to to carry them on his person or act to have them in his possession ill He Js is s merely the advance agent between ego who brings the conner conner conner con- con ner and the vendor together Tot lot ot only does he get a commission Tithe drug merchant but he obtains beral bonus from the customer as l 1 1 If the customer is an addict the theoster theoster theoster oster often extorts money both be- be 3 and and after atter the delivery of the goods well as getting his bit from the DIFFICULT Zany lany of these middlemen who neith- neith use ue nor handle drugs have been into Info police headquarters and the evidence against them is and will wUl not convict them violating any law now on the stat- stat books The addict will never testify i 1 seldom squeals on the person o O makes It possible for him to get dope dODe and the man who has a aply ply on the possession of ot which he arrested Is careful not to expose selling agent against the time when has served his sentence and is once re re able to do po business rom masses of ot Information gathered by the detectives of the division Commissioner Simon able to classify various types these middlemen and where and whey work As soon as the word ics tes in to headquarters that a individual l' is frequenting a certain aurant the detectives are sent out seldom fall fail to bring in either a ag ag ag g user or vendor vendo he drug booster himself generally ipes If It he is arrested with the ers rs tie the fact tact that he is not an adis adIs adis ad- ad is soon made evident and the that he has no dope in his pos- pos ion ilon causes him to be discharged rii nhe 1 lie C comes comes mes before the magistrate he evidence e warrants holding him further examination or trial he 01 alS ls S 'S B has means sufficient to get him him- on ban ball and while his case is i ding he is doing business again UNDER WHITE LIGHTS fie he narcotic division finds the drug ster In all sorts of place but re- re YI he or she has been frequenting white light district In Broadway and dance places from and m joints to the most expensive ter palaces this agent Is doing a table business ss Often he Is found 1 Stable table and sometimes through In In- sometimes through girls 1 dare lare are working for him suggests to Intended Intend customer a midnight par- par somewhere promising something sual or bohemian in this party A Amise Amiss miss mise of some bootleg whisky is isn n the bait a place where sure tips he races can be obtained is another attraction offered Somes Some- Some 23 when s the booster feels it is safe promises hl his new found friend a adope I dope party at which they will I merely witnesses not touching the theor I or g themselves s at all h hen from the restaurant the party I or three prospective and un- un 4 ing g customers goes to a room l in the vicinity If the party upp sed to be bohemian the room r beon on the lower east side and the crowd is introduced to those thos who whoa a e eythe the Uie stuff They are treated to exhibition of hop bop smoking and ch cli h the effect E HABIT GROWS hen the time is ripe to get them yare asked to try it once Just to what It Is like and often they do hays ti ps the effects are not as won- won ul as they are anticipated to be generally on another night they Wf wl themselves to be persuaded to another pipe to see if if the second ot go better than the first and lithe 1 the curious pleasure seeker is alt al- al 1 t surely hooked Before he knows rug taking is a pleasure to him and iTa necessity and another drug adlis ad- ad HIS lis made method described Is but one of taken by the booster to inise mist in- in ise lSe his business The other day Simons Simon's men arrested e dealers In an east side near where drug boosting had ingoing on h hl extent to which this traffic has in ln New York and not only here raIl all over the world since the war led to the developing of a sort of r secret service against the g evil Dr Simon receives daily dally re re- re ts tsi from London Paris an and t other cities telling him where large plies of pf opIum heroin cocaine and are being shipped and wh where re r information leads them to believe PORTS ORTS FROM MANY CITIES ver er cities In this country and andl iada l a are sending their reports on one evil to Commissioner Simon r re e every eyer pg y day police officers and other dials from many cities come to to learn from the t e com- com and his staff how the drug blem blein is being handled in hi New York Ir V T Vore lord ore oro than 2900 arrests have been leby y the narcotic squad within the Of the addicts arrested a aib ib r h have ve voluntarily confessed to use of or narcotics In some form torm and andeleen andeleen eleen sent away after atter serving a tence for tor violation of or the Harrison ilaw entirely cured mong the prisoners arrested recent- recent vas ono one who before he became an ani i a drug booster and he heIe hek k Ie tested jed sed to having made in months The detectives tell the Vlot another an Italian l cleared leared 2100 in the first two ks ks' h p nr in th ihla and I l then when oth others rs of the ring in which I he was working were arrested escaped I to Italy Dr Simon Is now gathering statistics to show the close relation between crime and the use of drugs It has al already already already al- al ready been established that 60 per cent of all addicts have criminal records and many of those apprehended have ha confessed that the first crime they ever committed was in an effort to obtain funds to buy drugs Many of the drugs finding their way into New York come from Germany the police have discovered I have the facts to prove pro Dr SImOn Si Simon Simon SI- SI mon said recently that there is a wealthy drug ring In Germany which h his is competing for sales to drug addicts and world supremacy In this illicit trade with Japanese distributors Before Before Before Be Be- fore the Harrison law was passed the opium imported and smuggled into the United States amounted to about pounds annually It Is hardly possible to compute the amount now because the fhe smuggled importations are areso areso areso so carefully hidden Drugs come in from Mexico Canada and from South America Ameri AmerI- ca Europe and the Orient and yet all the opium needed for legitimate use could be raised in California J |