PARIS DOPE TRAFFIC
REVELATIONS OF A TRIAL. (Rec. April 16, 8.15 p.m.) Paris, April 16. A Correctional Court scene at the trial of seventy-night persons concerned in The dope tratne. of whom thirtyone wore women, nine doctors, six chemists, and Fnt Raol. known a» the cocaine king of Montmartre, would need the pen of Maupassant to describe the horrors of the life stories revealed. Every degree of dope tyranny was represented. There were men and women who seemed unconscious of the degradation they had reached; others were intellectuals evidently engaged' in a ceaseless struggle against temptation. Some of them were mere girls. This mass prosecution is the result of inquiries commencing in 1921, and showed that certain doctors and chemists have been selling cocaine without making entries in the poison register, and deliberately overlooking evidence of fraud on - the part of dopers.—Aus.-N.Zx Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 179, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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144PARIS DOPE TRAFFIC Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 179, 17 April 1923, Page 7
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