“DOPE” TRAFFIC.
the PARIS SENSATION.
EVEN DEGREE OF-TYRANNY
(Received April 16. 8.If) p.m.) v PARIS, April 16,
At the Correctional Court, the scene at the trial of 78 persons concerned in the dope traffic, whereof 31 were women nine doctors, and six chemists, and "Fat” Eaol, known as tlio "cocaine kin o, of Montmartre/’ would need the pen” of a Maupassant to describe the horrors of life the stories . revealed. Every degree of dope tyranny was represented. There were men and women who seemd unconscious of the degradation they had reached, while others were intellectuals, evidently engaged in a ceaseless struggle against temptation. Some of the women wore mere girls. . This mass prosecution is the result of enquiries, commencing in 1921. which showed that certain doctors and chemists had been selling cocaine without making entries in the .poison register, and deliberately overlooking the evidence of fraud on the part of the dopers. —A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9670, 17 April 1923, Page 5
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