Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-04 | Page 4 | Train Pigeons to Smuggle in Drugs

TRAIN PIGEONS TO SMUGGLE IN DRUGS LOS ANGELES Dec Trained 4 carrier pigeons I eon are Ore bringing narcotics narcotic acOsa the border bordet front from Mexico In uch auch s that th t the uric eric of a bladl of at least l t one on drag in underworld mar markets et h heR Lg perceptibly so- so c to U CTt here bore Hundreds Hundred of these each f a package of the drug Jf b beneath the h body f lor or under tho the wing are arc liberated from the Mexican he rs of ft s smug smug- xang to at certain specified agents A times 1 Cv hour hours lat liter later r tRey they are Bre ar being checked up uD at t their owners S homes home on the Bide aide of the line It tt Is said wd The system By t m was iru revealed ties tIe ties announced when one on ft of o t e bor bor der bird birds WM was wounded by a hunter huntr and nd nd tricked picked ick up ul bL by a scent tnt n who happened to p e watching r the air lr for gr a smuggler mu le l r plAne Y Yn n go 00