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Show SHIPPED COCAINE AND MORPHINE INTO THE CITY After a vigilant lookout kept for a shipment of cocaine and morphine, Deputy Sheriff J. L. Hobson and City Detective Charles Plncock were rewarded re-warded this morning at 10:30 when they caught William Gibson, a negro, with three bottles of cocaine and three of morphine which had been shipped to him by express from an adjoining state. The officers refuse to givo the names of the shippers as they are Investigating their identity at the shipping end. Since last Friday, the officers have been expecting a shipment of the drug to some one in the city, the identity iden-tity unknown, and they have been keeping close watch of tho express offices, at the depot and uptown. This morning as the officers were waiting developments, the negro appeared and called for a package. It was handed to him but he observed the officers and, leaving tho package on the counter, started away at rather a rapid pace. The officers apprehended appre-hended him and called hl3 attention to tho fact that he was going away without his parcel. The negro confessed con-fessed that the package was his and told the officers what it contained. Deputy Sheriff Hobson states that of late regular weekly shipments of theso drugs have been made to parties in Ogden, and distributed to "dope fiends" at a good profit. The officers determined to put a stop to the traffic. They say Gibson is a user of the drugs and that there were others who this morning had anxiously been waiting the receipt of the package. The six bottles are said to be worth about ?35 and the negro would have sold them for at least twice that amount. U Is a penitentiary offense to dispense dis-pense of these drugs, except to registered reg-istered pharmacists, and tho present entanglement with the parties selling is doubly grave as it Ib an interstate transaction, which may cause the federal authorities to enter the case. |