THE KLEPTOMANIAC DOCTOR
STRAW, CONFESSION IN VIENNA,
Some time ago a firm of booksellers reported thefts of medical works (stales tho Vienna correspondent of the ’ Ohserer '). The police traced them to one Maximilian Bartf, assistant doctor at a hospitid. who made a strange confession. According to bis story, ho suffers from kleptomania, and in 19 1.7”h0 was tried for a theft of iev. allcry and sentenced to two yearn* imprisonment. While in prison he studied n.rd'i al works with great, interest; medicine had always been his great, ambition. When ho wae discharged he could not. officially enter as a student at the university owing to his record, hut he attended priv.it* lectures, worked in the dissecting por-ni, and thus acquired thorough medicvl ii! r " ledge. In order to secure a positww I ■■ had to forge a doctor’s diploma. After an examination, which he pi-. successfully, ho worked as an assistant for several years at two hospitals, and was generally looked upon as an exceptionally clover surgeon. Suddenly he ww again attacked with kleptomania, and stolo books on several occasions. Had hi not done so his deception in the mattei of his professional work might never Lavi com© to light.
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Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 2
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199THE KLEPTOMANIAC DOCTOR Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 2
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