UNDERWORLD LIFE

Shannon News, 10 December 1926, Page 4

UNDERWORLD LIFE

DOPE QUEEN WIFE OP'G.UXMAJf. "THE CANDY KID." Information and finger prints obtained from Europe have enabled the American police to identify the wife of "The Candy Kid," the gunman and gaol breaker, who has just been executed at Baltimore, as an English gin. Her name is said to be Margaret Cooney, but she has been more familiarly known as "Tiger Lil." Until a few years ago she was active in dope smuggling and luggage, thefts i between French and English ports. Facts now in possession of the police in America make it clear that she had | direct dealings with some, of the most j dangerous Chinese and other agents j, of the cocaine traffic in London and ! Liverpool.' j It is said that if the documents found at one of her addresses ai-e handed to the London and Paris authorities they will form the greatest revelation of the extent of the "underground" traffic in drugs that has yet come to light. "Tiger Lil" has been in the hands of the police twice in France, and had j several narrow escapes from capture by the English police, who had her under observation to such an extent that decided to cease for the time being her personal participation in I the , traffic. j apparently very young, the j woman is undoubtedly older in crime J than her looks suggest, for the seized ! papers trace her association with some of the tragedies of the dope traffic going back fifteen years or so. She was mixed up with the tragedy of" Billie Carleton, and was also behind the tragic death of Jack Pickford's wife in Paris some time ago. Anriother associate of the woman in her drug-dealing days was Brilliant Chang. The discoveries made are regarded as of great importance, because it Is felt that in "Tiger Lil" the most sinister figure that. evc*r made a living in, the underworlds of the two continents lias been unmasked, was to the SupremeCourt for trial on' February 2. Bail was allowed in the sum of £2OO.