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Of course you know how prohibition works in many
places and how the law is beaten. The dope fiends seem to be doing
the same thing with this law.
"Of course nowadays everybody talks about a 'system' controlling
everything, so I suppose people would say that there is a 'dope
trust.' At any rate we have run up against at least a number of
places that seem to be banded together in some way, from the
lowest down in Chinatown to one very swell joint uptown around
what the newspapers are calling 'Crime Square.' It is not that
this place is pandering to criminals or the women of the
Tenderloin that interests us so much as that its patrons are men
and women of fashionable society whose jangled nerves seem to
demand a strong narcotic.
"This particular place seems to be a headquarters for obtaining
them, especially opium and its derivatives.
"One of the frequenters of the place was this unfortunate girl,
Bertha Curtis. I have watched her go in and out myself, wild-eyed,
nervous, mentally and physically wrecked for life.


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