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Show UNIQUE METHOD USED TO SMUCCLE DRUG INTO PRISON Warden Maxwell of the Nevada State prison a few days ago discovered discover-ed an ingenious method by which mor-thine mor-thine has been smuggled into the penitentiary- Lately there had passed throum the warden's hands a number of let ters. all from the same person and bedecked with one-cent stamps, the writer never using a two-center. This ;act, while queer, did not arouse uiv due' suspicion and probably would have been passed . by . .with little thought had not a letter arrived one day to which a one and two-cent stamp were affixed. Maxwell scanned tho missive closely. The letter was not heavy' and any writer should have Vnowa that one stamp wa sufficient to carry it. And also that it is against poutoffice regulations to ' put a one-cent one-cent stamp on first class mall, even when more than a two is necear. The warden made a cloe examination examina-tion and could find nothing t:inlde.'.r out, on which to withhold the loiter, loi-ter, and was about to turn it ov to the prisoner to whom it was a !-t!resHed. !-t!resHed. Partly by accident he ran his letter opener under one of lit.' stamps, and there poured forth froui the puncture a small quantity of fla white powder. .Investigation prove: It to be morphine. Under the other stamp also was a quantity of tho dru . and the gummed flap of the envelope envel-ope was bulged with the stuff. Other letters were opened and more morphine was found concealed in tho fame manner. Needless to say, nono of the missives reached the parties I for whom they wore Intended. |