Show CRIME 1 IN CHICAGO horrible condition of the opi opium um dene dons iff lit the garden city by western As absil sd press creseto to the alu CHICAGO may 21 1 12 tho the aimes to morrow will devote more than a acol col dmn to an investigation of the opium dens orthis of this city the ful following lowing i s ran an abstract of the sensational developments the criminal practices in the opium dons dens of ofner new york which have created great excitement and indignation in that city have led the times to investigate lie the similar den of iniquity which infest chicago the police are fully cognizant of tho the number of opium join joints ts now in ex existence in chicago and d lie the number of persons both male and female visit them and yet though their practice are in ili open violation of oatlie law and of the municipal code they are winked at and no arre arrests 8 is are mado un unless 1 e M direct complaint of robbery ie is mado bythe by the victim for years care these opium dene dena have flouris flourished bed under the no u of odthe the authorities and the the noxious drug has assailed the nostril nostrils of every person who has passed by theolen the open door of a chinese laundry the evil while it lias has reached alarming proportions in this city is not rao great and perhaps never will be as it is in ili now new york while a number of cases have never come to lichtin light in chicago it ia is nevertheless true that women have been enticed into opium dens in this city and there debauched not only by white men but by one case in particular was noted wherein two young women were treated in that manner ono olle young woman achieved considerable notoriety about a yeara gd by her prosecution probe cution of a professional gentleman for seduction and illegitimate parentage made no ca seand the complaint was regarded as a blackmailing scheme slie she was arrested on od a charge of perjury the woman undoubtedly fly a crank and she wa made so it is said I 1 b by her pr predilection edilee fa for r opi opium u tn ta the other young woman was a companion or relative and durin during the alleged blackm blackmailing u ailing opera operation tiou both were shadowed b by y detectives tec tives they were followed into a opium den on rin van buren st where they indulged in the narcotic until stupefied after which they were outraged by chinaman who frequented the place six or seven im number other instances are also alm known an and I 1 the police admit that opium is i s smoked in several establishments in the abo city which are alleged to be laundries these iniquitous dena dens have for years catered to the depraved tastes of me men and N women omen but it would appear that they were not satisfied with this and are reaching ont to grasp ill their snaky soils young girls and even children jt recently came to the ears of capt eberson of the central station thata little waif of the streets a news girl had been enticed into one of these dens and mined ruined the joint which was the scene ot of the horror borror was reported as somewhere on oil madison street in the neighbor hoyl of fifth avenue but unfortunately alta exact location was not learned by the police there has been but one chinese laundry in that locality within a year where opium is known to have haie been smoked and slid that was in the tile basement of no IGO and madison street the tile police claim that tins this place with the gambling blin house that was in ili connection with it was vas broken up some months ago other instances of atrocities committed in these places have bee been reported to the public from front time to time and women owen have frequently been taken in a helpless condl condition tion from them |