Police Raid High-End Queen Anne Apartment
Prohibition-era sting nets stash of liquor, gambling gear, and opium in a fashionable Seattle neighborhood.
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In a raid on an apartment house at Seattle Saturday night, in the fashionable Queen Anne residence district, the police seized 25 cases of whisky and other liquor, having a total estimated value of $1000, besides gambling paraphernalia and several opium smoking outfits found in the basement and worth $3000. Harry Stanley, who occupied an apartment, was arrested.
“Several opium smoking outfits found in the basement and worth $3000.”
Long before current debates about drug policy and the criminalization of poverty, Seattle was already performing high-profile raids on the 'fashionable' parts of town, proving that vice enforcement has always had a complex relationship with class.
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