SUPPLIES OF "DOPE."
PARIS SENSATION. GAOL FOR DOCTORS AND CHEMISTS. Elec. Tel Copyright— United Press Assn i (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.' iiiUS, July 22. The dope trial, which commenced on April 16, resulted in all the doctors and chemists, being found guilty of delivering practically unlimited quantities of morphine and other drugs. The Court declined to accept the defence that the doctors and 1 chemists acted with a view to enabling victims of the drug habit to liberate themselves from the vice. Dr. Raoul Ragnjer was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and two other doctors to six months each, two to three months each, and 1 three others, including a woman doctor, were fined. One chemist was sentenced to six months’ gaol, and another to four months. Thirty-nine drug takers were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from three to ten months, and fines, of 1000 to ZOCO francs.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16186, 24 July 1923, Page 3
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