The Archive · 1937

A Lifetime In

Dealing in Shanghai morphine and heroin has further brought a sentence fof fifty years in the penitentiary on the head of one Louis Ginsberg, a notorious "wholesale operator—in southwestern United States,—while fix of his eutonants have been given (erms aggregating ninety years, Two other members of this "gang have been convicted but not yot sentenced, while a further two are awaiting trial. Tt took the Jury only fifteen minutes to reach a verdict in the case cof the seven principals.

The work of rounding up the Ginsberg gang was done by Federal agents who in the course of their activities bought from members the ring eleven packets of morphine and heroin aggregating more than four pounds of vicious narcotics. All the contraband seized was traced to sources In China.

'Nearly all the persons arrested including one woman) actually' sold morphine or heroin to Government rie and forly years for Kidnapping and torturing & French seaman who bad sold for his own recount certain drugs consigned 10 Salvatore Mancuso.

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