Posed As Doctor.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)

Posed As Doctor.

DESCRIBED by two refugee doctors as "a youth of double character" a 2 1 -year-old German refugee was recommended for deportation by an English magistrate recently. The youth, Arno Joachim Albrecht BacEwitz, of Ashburn Place, Kensington, was charged with the theft of property, worth about £9, part from a fellow-lodger and the rest at a New Year's party and at a hairdresser's. Detective Holder said Bachwitz, who was Jewish, came to England in 1034. For two years he was a mediual student in London, but failed to get bis degree, Since then be had posed as a doctor and, in fact, bad performed a minor operation on a girl. He carried a complete medical kit.

3lr. St. John Hutchinson, defending, said two German refugee doctors had known Bachwitz for some years, and both considered his a case for psychoanalytical treatment. If such a type were sent to prison there was a great risk of his being made a criminal for ever. Mr. Wilson, the magistrate, said that he was sorry for the circumstances which drove Bachwitz from the land of his birth, but he could not allow his sympathy to interfere with his judgment. "Whether you are a criminal or abnormal," he told Bachwitz, "It will be in the best interests of the public for you to leave this country at the earliest possible moment. You have no regard for its laws, and must go to prison for seven days. I shall also make a certificate recommending you fer deportation."