FAMILY SURGEON, HORSE-DOPER
SAN FRANCISCO, Bee. 18. By doping racehorses, a leading family surgeon of Monterey, Dr. David Matzke, won a small fortune at betting. He carried on this practice by wholesale methods, inserting cocaine in horses’ legs a few moments before thev, raced. . . , . t . The police became’suspicious on ac-. count of the quantity of cocaine he was .securing. He had acquired 2000 ounces since July, by using the names of friends and writing prescriptions. The doctor was fined £3O,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 12
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