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No fewer than 500 people qare making an excellent living in London to-day by the illicit selling of "dope."
WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE.
STORY OF NURSE'S ATTACK.
"I GRASPED THE KNIFE BLADE."
"I could see the blade of a knife just above me. I noticed a look in her eyes, and felt I should have to fight for my life.”
CLAIM TO THRONE OF FRANCE.
ASTONISHING. STORY OF "PRINCE LOUIS."
"I have documents from the Vatican and the British and Dutch Governments proving that my grandfather, Naundorff, who died in Holland in 1845, was actually the boy King Louis XVII., who is supposed to have died in the This was part of the tensely Temple prison in Paris in 1795. dramatic story fold at Marylebone am not yet ready to reveal these last month by Miss Hilda Mary Proofs, which are in a safe deposit Bordi, principal of the West End does not seem ripe, but when I Nursing Corporation and Club,
Sented in the witness-box, with do the whole world will be thrilled. her forehead, neck and arms band. I will reveal for the first time the aged, Miss Bordi gave evidence true story of the Dauphin's escape, against Mrs. Elvira Josephine which will prove that I am the Dr. Richard Starkie was for Long, aged 42, a nurse, who was rightful claimant to the throne of
France."
That gure-described "as " conservative estimate"was sup plied to a Press representative by Dr. Richard William Starkie, in the course of an interview which revealed astcuishing facts about the
well-organised underground traffic in drugs now being carried on in England.
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While Mise Bordi was in the box, the knife was produced. It was left in front of her, and after a time she said, in an anguished voice, Please take that thing away."
many years a surgeon to the Metro-charged with attempting to murder.. politan Police. Formerly he was her by stabbing her with a bunter's one of the most prominent general knife. practitioners in the west of Lon- don, with scores of distinguished men and women among his patients. He has just returned home, after serving a sentence of five months' impriadament in the second divi- sion for oficnes under the at the club about two months ago. Dangerous Drugs Act It
While I was dressing on the contended that Dr. Starkie sup-morning of April 25," Miss Bordi plied, prescriptions for heroin to a continued, "I heard a knock at the patient when he was not, authoris
door. I opened it, and saw Mre,
ed to do so.
Long on the second stair above.
Was
"I have seen so much of the evils
of drug-taking in my medical prac tice and during my experience as a police surgeon," said Dr. Starkie, "that I want to say something now ib warning, against the ease with which drugs can be secured in Eng
land.
"
"Many, many more people than the authorities imagine are taking drugs in London. The police and the officials of Whitehall have no idea how widespread the drug traffic is Doctors and are engaged in the business.
"I have my own suspicions that two doctors are at the head of the whole organisation.
chemist
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Smuggled Drugs, "The drug traffic is divided into two classes, namely, the drugs which are supplied by chemists prescriptions from registered me;" dical men, and the drugs which nro smuggled into England and sold by the distributors.
These distributors peddle drugs. They are the men and women at the bottom of the organisation, and they are sometimes caught by the police. The heads have never been caught or suspected.
"Smuggling is easy. You can bring cocaine and horoin scroes from France and Holland without the slightest risk of detection,
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"A small quantity of pure 300- caine, just enough to fill a tooth powder box, which coste on the Continent less than 25, will fetch as much as £1,000 in London when broken down-mixed with other powder.
"I have seen a watch used for cocaine amuggling a watch on the surface with a face and hands, but inside no works at all, just a re ceptacle for cocaine, which when retailed would fetch nearly £2,000 "The men who do the smuggling make frequent journeys to the Continent, but they are always changing their routes They" even Weymouth and the Channel Islands if they think the more usual ways are being watched.
Mrs. Long, she said, took a room
wards me, and I felt a knock on * She said nothing, but sprang to
my head. She caught my left shoulder, elosed the door, as far as I can remember, pushed me" on the bed and knelt on me.
mc.
"She raised the knife in front of I grasped the blade, and screamed for help. She said, 'It is no use screaming; you have no chance now.' She brought the blade to my heart, and I pushed it up again. As far as I remember, she brought
vault in London, as the moment
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A strange figure of a man who called himself "Prince Louis de Bourbon" and actually has French identity card made out in that name-ho is a Dutch subject--- made these astonishing statements to a press representative in dis- cussing the new book about bis pretensions just published in Lon- don. It was a pathetic interview.
"Prince Louis," who is now past sixty years of age, and has become almost totally blind, sat in a cor- ner of his modest villa in the
innumerable suburb of Sannois, surrounded by
souvenirs of the Dauphin given him by his numer- followers among the French nobility.
ous
He remarked: "I knew the Loa-
don Naval Conference was doomed to failure, because it opened on a fatal day—January 21-the day my ancestor was beheaded on the Place de la Concordą."
sought to prove for almost a cen. He told how the family had
it down twice, and each time Itury that Naundorf was actually pushed it up again.
ence together.
Louis XVII., and how he had final- Then she brought it down to myly gathered the necessary evid stomach. Her teeth were clenched, and she was forming at the mouth. Then she put her right hand across her brow and said, "I won't hurt you any more. It is past now.'
A Kiss.
Then she asked me if I loved her, and I said, Yes, I do, Mrs. Long' She said, "No, you are cunning. You are only saying
that.'
"I have a most delicate matter to broach to the English people," said Lquis, the grandson. “We know that Louis XVI. of France and George III of England made
confidential agreement in 1792 to the effect that if either of them abould perish in a revolution the survivor would care for the other king's family.
"The descendants of Louis XVI. felt that the- English people should carry out this agreement, at least in a modest measure.
Presently she bent over and kissed me, and said, "Let go the knife. I said I could not, as I thought she was waiting for E change, and she said, 'This was not meant for you; it was meant for
This "Prince. Louis," who is a a doctor (whom she named), who son of the late "Prince Adelbert," has taken my child from me.'”. would not divulge the nature of Miss Bordi added that she stood his newly discovered evidence prov. up, but held the knife till she got Dauphin. But he remarked that ing that Naundorff was the to the door, and then let go and ran upstairs to the top floor to Miss the English authorities had allow Kingston's room, and was taken toed Naundorff to give his two sons a nursing home.
the title of "Prince of Bourbon" on the official register when they were born.
Describing Miss Bordi's wounds, Dr. H. E. Blake said that there were 14 distinct wounds on the right hand, one of which almost severed the thumb,
There was a scalp wound about four inches long going down to the bone, and the skull bone was chip ped. Sixteen stitches had to be put on the right hand, and eight on the scalp.
Mrs. Long uns committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court
Mr. Symons; on her behalf, plead- ed not guilty, and reserved her 'de- fence.
"A good deal of dope is also smuggled across to England in small private yachts, which come into places like Torquay and A medical report on Mrs Loog's Poole, where the Customs examina-condition from the doctor at tion is not too strict.
".
Easy to Hide. "It is the easiest thing in the world to hide dope. The pure stuff takes only a tiny space. It may be in a bottle labelled with the name of any proprietary me- dicine or mouth wash; se "tooth powder; or in what seem to be cigarettes. The methods are end- Jess.
"Never by any chance will a dópa addict give away the source of his supply; that is one of the safe guarde of the trafo.
"Drug taking in this country is, a rich person's vice. It will cost from £8 to £10 a week to obtain 2 regular supply.
Holloway Prison was handed by the magistrate to Mr. Vincent Evans, prosecuting, and to Mr. Symons, but its contents were not disclosed.
NAVAL PACT REPORT
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LABOURS OF SENATE COM- MITTEE NEARING END.
UNITED PRESS.]
Washington, June 6-Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Care mittee met in executive closed session to-day in an attempt to decide when they will report on the London Naval Limitation Trenty.
There is an idea that some of the night clubs, in London aro places where drugs can be bought. That is altogether wrong. You might meet at a night club the peo- ple who would put you in the waymittee chairman, said that he hoped of securing drugs, but there is no actual traffic at the clubs..
the report could be sent in next Saturday
respectable restauranta, et shopa and railway stations.
"Senator William E. Borah, com.
Bedator Hiram Johnson of Usii- fornia voiced vigorous protest "Want is needed to stop a great against the action of the Adminis- part of this drug trafic certainly tration in withholding certain doen.. that part in which the drugs are ments in connection with the fram obtained" under medical prescrip-ing of the treaty, and he urged that tions-ig an entirely new set of re- the committee take suitable action gulations."
to force production of the papere, -
Naundorff's gradson believed that destiny had chosen him as its in- strument to bring the English and French nations together again in an alliance. If the right at mosphere can be created, be hopes to lecture on this subject in Paris and London.
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