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Show DOPE FIEND MAY BE ED FOR FEDERAL HHITIES c, The major part of the time in the municipal coiirt this morning was taken up with tho City vs. Edward Dempsey. Dcmpsey is a confessed morphine fiend and was arrested by Detectives Wardlaw and PIncock yesterday. yes-terday. He was charged with vagrancy vag-rancy and entered a plea of not guilty. guil-ty. Detective Wardlaw testified for the city, stating that he and Detective Detec-tive PIncock had answered a call from tho Volker Lumber company, which was to the effect that a man had been seen to jump over the fonco with a bundle In his arm and run through the lumber yard. When they reached the yard, the man was out of sight, but after a search thoy found him hidden under a pile of lumber. He was recognized as a dope fiend, and the charge of vagrancy wns nlncprl nrnlnnt hm In nrrip.r to help him get rid of the effects of the drug. On the stand, Dempsey said that he had been employed by the Brown News company on trains running between be-tween Ogden and Reno. While In Reno the last time, he said, he was taken sick with pneumonia and had not yet entirely recovered. He was staying at a Twenty-fifth street rooming room-ing house yesterday and heard the landlady telephone for the police. He then tried to make his escape. When questioned by Attorney Wade Johnson for the city, he said that he had been In Ogden for nearly a year. His home was in Missouri, that he had been living In San Francisco from 1907 until he came to Ogden. In answer to questions by Judge Reeder, the defendant said that he had been a morphine fiend for ten years and that ho ncqulred the habit while in a hospital at Redding, Cal. He admitted that he had bought the drug In Ogden from men on the street, also that ho had been In the habit of purchasing ?4 or $5 worth In Reno on every trip. He' had given other dope fiends part of the morphine mor-phine that he had bought; he had not sold It, but had taken money In exchange when it was offered to him. i These admissions led the Judge to believe that the case probably needed need-ed federal investigation, as it involved in-volved the transportation of narcotics from one state to another. He, therefore, took the case under advisement, ad-visement, and said that he would confer with the federal authorities, M. R. Ballard, a drunk, was given a six months' suspended sentence. He is a farmer from Promontory and was arrested in the company of J. L. Parry who was also charged with drunkenness. Parry pleaded not guilty guil-ty and his hearing was set for tomorrow to-morrow morning. L. J, Rayjkham was fined 510. He was convicted of disturbing the peace at the Tuesday session of the court. |
