FAKED DIPLOMAS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17350, 15 May 1924, Page 12

FAKED DIPLOMAS.

REMARKABLE TESTIMONY. Hy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cabls Association. NEW YORK. May 13. According to a despatch from Hartford, graphic testimony respecting the character of the Kansas City Medical College was offered during a hcariug. upon appeal, of twenty physicians whose licenses to practice were withdrawn. following the national scandal regarding faked diplomas An expert medical investigator declared that the janitor at the college kept the attenuance roll.- while only three of the thirty members of the faculty went near the college, and then to draw their salaries. Another witness declared that the college was a harbour for derelicts from anywhere. Veterinar’.ans arrived in Kansas City by one train, and actually left by the -next, with medical degrees for which they bad paid 2CO dollars. A witness who examined the follege building found it filthy, and completely lacking in equipment or facilities. Appellants, who were present in Court, grew angry- at the revelations, and attacked the witnesses with their fists. A fight ensued, and detectives were compelled to beat several of the former into submission.