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Show SMART CAPTURE OF DRUG SELLER SALT 1.AKE, An,?. 4. Just who has for , months been supplying the ' hop heads" and "dope" fiends with their supplies of drues carne lo light, late Wednesday afternoon, when .Tamos Duncan. whose occupation Ik still unknown, un-known, outside of, a far as can bo learned, that of conducting a "still ran arretted for supplying omv? victims vic-tims with drusTR. The prrcsl wos made by Chief of Detectlvts Sheets and Detectives Jan-ney, Jan-ney, Ripley and Curran. For a number num-ber of weeks Chlf Sheets has been on the lookout for the dispensing headquarters head-quarters of the "dope" that has been so freelv circulated in Ihe tenderloin. Although a number of arrests have been made, yet the guilty parties had not been apprehended Duncan's method was simplicity itself. it-self. Uncaging a room in the America Ameri-ca d houe on Commercial street, with n window In clote proximity to a reai stairway, he had a small hole cut In It Hi roil eh which bis ' customers" could purchase n supply, without the parties par-ties to either nido of the transaction being seen. Wednesday the detectives had watched a hop ilend who had gone up these rear steps, and who shortly after af-ter comlDg down had. It was seen, become be-come well under the influence of drugs. The detectives then mounted the steps and knocked on the window. As Duncan h.mded out the package of "dope" he was placed mder arrest. He was found lying on a bed close to the window, with the leather bug which contained the drug wide opeii. lie slated flint he made a practice of selling morphine and cocaine, soniv of which was found In his r.oin, to messenger boys. There was also a box containing "Yen Shce," or opium Labeled boxes containing the names of the Doull Drug, company. x:5S Main street, and the (ieorge Price Drug company, 2fi9 South Main street, were discovered In Duncan's room. A nn- scription from m Dr. Maxwell was also found among the effect of Duncan. The pill boxes containing the cocaine were not labeled "poison," and from this fact the police are of the opinion that Duncan can be prosecuted hv lh state authorities for selling poison in violation of the state law |