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10InCSCTOPEKA (AP!—Federal agents.with the help of city and county officers, arrested 10 persons at Topeka and .Junction City today on charges of .selling narcotics.Sheriff Vernon Robinson of Topeka said the accused had been selling marijuana, heroin and morphine. He said evidence was obtained by a Y. S. Treasury Department agent working under-- cover.Arrested at Topeka were Maude Lawton, 52, her son. Melbourne Lawton, 31, and Vandora Wilson, 49. at) Negroes.Phil Smith. Kansas City district supervisor of the 1. S Bureau of Narcotics, said seven persons will be arraigned at Junction City today, six of them on federal Charges and one on a state change ol possession of marijuana.An eighth person, he said, was expected to be charged with operating an open saloon.Names of those held at Juncrion City were not released immediatelySmith indicated source* of supply for the narcotics were in Kansas City and Denver.
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Arkansas City Traveler
Arkansas City, Kansas, US
Fri, Dec 01, 1961
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