DRUG ADDICT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21569, 15 February 1932, Page 8

DRUG ADDICT

BARONET’S DAUGHTER Pleading guilty to seven summonses for beipg in possession of dangerous drugs, Miss Brenda Dean Paul, the 22-year-old daughter of Sir Aubrey and Lady Dean Paul, of Westward Ho, Devon, was bound over at Marlborough street, London. Miss Paul, whose address was given as Curzou street, Mayfair, was ordered to live for three years where the magistrate should direct, in the first place at a home. Mr Vincent Evans, prosecuting, described how Miss Paul went to a doctor at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, W., on July 20 and asked him to treat her as a morphine' addict. At no time till November 4 did she disclose that she was being treated by other doctors, but for most of the period she was receiving prescriptions from a second medical man and on one occasion from a third simultaneously. On one day Miss Paul received three grains of morphine from one doctor and ten grains from another. The magistrate: Were all these prescriptions made up by the same chemist? Mr Evans: In the case of two doctors, yes. In the other case they were supplied personally. Dr Thomas Creighton, of Grosvenor House, Park lane, when he entered the witness box said he undertook to treat Miss Paul for morphia addiction if she would undergo a cure. Mr Capewell (defending) : Since the summonses have been issued you have still been treating her because she could not put it off altogether?—Yes. She is now ready and willing to take a cure and go into a home?—That is right. Dr William Leslie, of Kuightsbridge, said he attended Miss Paul from October 5 until November 4 and supplied morphia on a number of occasions. He had no idea she was being treated by Dr Creighton as well.

Dr Reginald P. Liston, another doctor on whom Miss Paul called, said she told him she was not having morphia from anybody else. Mr Mead: Why was it that the treatment ceased?—l terminated it. It was a question of fees.