HEROIN HABIT

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20464, 2 April 1938, Page 22 (Supplement)

HEROIN HABIT

GLOBE TROTTER’S STORIES PAWNED BABY FOR DRUG (Times Air Mail Service; LONDON, March 3 Barbara Board, preUy, young globetrotter, is just back in Britain after amazing adventures among drug addicts. says the Sunday Chronicle. Miss Board lived in the home of a peasant family in a little Egyptian village. N “One night my landlord, thinking I was asleep, came to the door of his house, undid a mysterious little white packet, and took out a tiny steel dagger," she writes in a book on her experiences, just published. “I watched him bend his head over the paper, then saw with amazement that he was making an incision in his left arm. "It was about 3in long and fairly deep, anc l . must have pained him considerably, but he did not cry out. He just prised it open with the knife as if he had been used to doing it every night. Powder on Knife “I saw some wh te powder flash 011 the blade of the knife then watched him inserting the powder into the open wound. He was taking heroin. “Stranger still,” she goes on, “was the story of the lather who bought cocaine for ten piastres (two shillings), leaving his baby with the seller until he should bring the money. It was J 5 davc before he returned to redeem the child.”