A DOCTOR’S LAPSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 19

A DOCTOR’S LAPSE.

COMMITS PALTRY FRAUD. SUFFERED FROM SHELL SHOCK. (Feb United Peess Association.* AUCKLAND, September 24. A medical practitioner named George Redpath, aged 26 years, appeared for sentence on a charge of obtaining, with intent to defraud, the sum o: 10s from Henry Hamon by falsely representing that a. gramophone was his property and unencumbered. Senior Detective Hammond said accused was a doctor, who had been practising at Henderson, but had fallen through drink. He had been in trouble previously for « similar offence. There was some talk of his intention to go to Canada. “If accused could get away to a fresh country we would help him along the road,” added the chief detective. Mr Schramm, who appeared for Redpath, stated that accused suffered greatly from shell-shock, sustained during his war service. He had served on four fronts during the war—in Belgium, France, Mesopotamia, and in Palestine—and had been “blown up” during an air raid in England. He had been a brilliant man at his profession. Probably if Redpath were prohibited it would assist him. Mr E. O. Cutten. S.M.: Do you object to a prohibition order being issued? Accused: That will not make much difference, sir, I think. Mr Cutten : Oh, well! It does not really matter. I can issue an order without your consent. Yon will be convicted and prohibited, and will also be ordered to eorne up for sentence within six months if called upon.