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The Minneapolis Journal, March 7, 1913, p. 10

SUSPECTED OF SELLING COCAINE TO MESSENGERS

Boys Deny Buying Drug, but Man Is Held Pending Investigation.

Suspected by the police of selling cocaine to messenger boys, Harry Brown, on whose person a quantity of the drug was found, is held at Central police station while detectives search for a woman who, they believe, can give them the information they want.

Brown was arrested by Detectives Melvin Passolt and Alfred Johnson at Hennepin avenue and Third street early today just after he had talked to several messenger boys. The detectives found cocaine in his pockets and locked him up.

According to Captain John Galvin the man has a prison record. While no boys were found who would say that they had purchased the drug of the man the detectives decided to investigate thoroughly. The woman whom the police seek knows Brown intimately, the police say, and can tell whether he had been selling cocaine.