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"DEVIL DOCTOR

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IN THE GRIP OF HEROIN-

DOWN, DOWN, DOWN."

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OLD AGE PENSION "GAY LIFE"

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ESPERANTIST'S AMAZING

SCHEME.

his conception of the modern Swiss Family Robinson

It is an idea I have beon work- ing on for the past two or three years, and which I should like-to- sce carried out in all our Domin ions-Cannda and New Zealand,- Awoman complained to aly."

for example," he told a reporter. Clarko Ball, the Old-street magis

Dividends In-10-Yours trate, last month, that her hus

Fifty young married Esperanto "My scheme aims at the garden band, who had been receiving the old age pension for two months, speaking English couples shipped city ideal, where the land, as in to Australia in a disused Navy | Welwyn, and Letchworth, belongs had recently taken to leading a transport with a doctor, nedigree to the community and cannot be

life.

He comes in and goes out just the as he likes, sho said. Frequent anely he does not come home until half

He past two in the morning,

himecit, spends all his pension on and he does not give me any money I find it to be very annoying."

A remarkable drama of a who declared himself to be most vicious drug addict of dern times," who told of years of vain fighting against the vice, and of "the devil in the disguise of a doctor "-and who was eventually denounced as an importor was op- acted at Maidenhead Police Court Inst month.

Mr. Clarke Hall: Most husbands Are annoying, but their wives cannot bring legal proceedings against them for thai nione,

Tho magistrate added that in the circumstances he thought the woman was entitled to take out a summons against her husband for neglecting to maintain her.

The man was "Major" Geoffrey Bradford Wilmer, of Mill House, Hurkey, Berkshire, and ho Was sentenced to six months' imprison meut on each of six charges under the Dangerous Drugs Act. All the #entonces are to run concurrently.

Mr. Botton Cohen stated the case for the Director of Public Prosecu- "The last time I paired that tions, and said Wilmer had received doctor for a prescription ho had heroin from chemists on prescrip-hoon sont for by the police. He tions made up by Dr. Starkie, of told me he was sorry he could not London, whose name had been re give me any more prescriptions. moved from the Medical Register in 1022.

Mr. S. Cohen said that the total amount of heroin procured by Wilmer from prescriptions signed by Dr, Starkie from July 18 to October 1929 dmounted approxi- nately to 358 1-3rd grains, or 2,150 tablets.

"That," he said, "works out at something over twenty-three tablets a day,"

That is the last time I saw that doctor.

stock, farm implements and seeds, bought by individuals" and set down in a remote, unopen cu region to establish their own garder city.

That is the dream of Mr. James Leakey, the 81-year-old friend of Mr. George Bernard Shaw and Mr. Snowden.

home in Hatfold, Herts,

·(Continued on next Column.)

"It would be like settling on A desert island. There would be no railway, but na the settlement prospered the railway would come to it. All we should nek of the Dominion

Government at first

be a weekly aeroplane ser- wondo deliver small inrcels and Mr. Leakey, Esperantist and town-letters. While the settlers were. planner, was putting the finishing building their. huts and establish- touches to a book called "Outwarding their homes we should expect

a certain amount of protection. Hot" in which he is setting forth

"Twenty thousand pounds would have, to be raised by public sub- scription to put the scheme into pre-operation. Each proposed settle. ment would be fathered and adopt- ed by a particular British county until ite crops and herds were well established. It would then act as

He then told how he took the scriptions to the chemist, who was Dealing with his visit to France reassured by Dr. Starkie. he said that four days after he got there he read of the case against Starkic.

magat, to attract ambitious Bri- tish youth from that county.

I fled to Monaco," he went on

"Under our presont emigration and there fell ill. For three and schemes, young people are directed a half months I lay under treat to already inhabited localities, ment, and all that time I was where their arrival disturbs exist having heroin to relieve my suffering trade unions and only adds to

uuemployment.

"On the Monday morning motored.to London, but by the time I had got to Hammersmith all the symptoms and signs of the depriva-ings. tion of the drug started.

"I was going off my head. I went to a café in Leicester-square, and the first person I saw was Dr.self

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1 told Dr. Starkic how it was with me, and he went out, coming back a quarter of an hour later with a tube of heroin of four to

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I was shaking like a lenf. I

"I am ashamed to tell you I"If the scheme were to begin was in a could sweat. I had to. give the wheel to the chauffeur. began taking heroin again, I was now, I am imagining that some pretty near the end when I was where, in 1936 or 1827 the leader could drive no further.

persuaded to return to this country of the settlement would have su7C. under another name and place my cessfully planned his garden city.

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TAILORING. parent county would be no longer "In another 10 years the share at expense in the matter. holdere. should begin to receive a modest & per cont. dividend, and Just that touch of as soon as the settlers had repaid the capital the entire cetate would individuality, which be their collective property, to be you or any other mat managed by their own elected ma-appreciates in his gor and corporation.

"That was the first time in my ife that I was given the drug caflix grains, I took an injection, and ed heroin," he said. I was then returned physically normal. | being attended by n bacteriologist. The culminating point of my suffering came in March 1928, when I got double septic bronchial pneumonia. For many days lay between life and death.

Visit to Scotland-Yard. "Then any game of make-believe really started. I went to Scotland- yard and asked to see the inspector in charge of the case against the doctor. I told the inspector that I had gone to Starkie to arrange eure." I told him Starkie had said, Certainly, my boy, but in the meantime you must not give it up immediately. It would be danger

I was kept alive purely and simply by the drug heroin.

"Heroin, besides being a soothing drug, is a great stimulant, and it is a fact that neither man nor woman who was in my state could

outs, have lived for a long time. But I disappointed everybody on that de casion nnd got well,

When I left the nursing home, I went to the West Country, and that was where the snare was set. That was the first time I was given n thorough king for heroin.

It was a long time before I used heroin again, but then the trouble enino, I auffered from insomnia, and I got a local practitioner to give me an injection of heroin.

*** A Great Tragedy." "So it went on until December 1928, and then a great tragedy came into my life. It was one great worry. The woman. I loved was taken at a moment's notice into: a London nursing home and under- went severe operation.

"Then they gave me heroin in that nursing home to keep me go- ing. This time I met the dorit din guised in the shape of a doctor He is a parasite of a noble and honourable profession. I say that 1 did not realise how far I was going downhill with this drug.

For money or its kind he started giving me prescriptions. Wherever I want that doctor camo, too, and all the time for money or its kind he gave me prescriptions.

"Night, nfter sight that doctor came to me and gave me an injec tion of heroin, and. I found after about a fortnight that this injec tion, which I had given me at eleven o'clock, and used to keep me asleep until four or five or six o'clock in the morning, did not now last long- or than till. two or three.in. the morning,

So the doctor used to come and give me another injection as three o'clock. Then I bought my own hypodermic syringe.

I did not realise where it was leading me. Far from it. I just thought I could stop this thing."

Like a man in a certain play, Wilmer said, he thought; This is the last time."

It is the last time, he remark ed, "after every injection, but still you go on. That went on until

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worgan I am talking about was again taken away at monent'a jhotice and operated on.

For six days and aix nights. she lay uneonacions.

If sat

in that room waiting for the end.

The woman got better we went. away, and the doctor came, too, and still he went on giving me pro acriptions, He knew how it was, with me. Ho know how far I was going, and I did not. It was al- waya the last time. Always-1 said; This is the last time. We will just finish off this tube and no more. That is what you say until the stuff bas got your

"You

Meeting with Doctor.

are terrified that your. drug supplies will be cut off, and from that moment you are a man no longer.

The man becomes ply and crafty, cannot look people in the face, and becomes a liar.

I removed, then down to this part of the world. The doctor came, top-a devil in disguise.

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The juspector did not seem to take much notice, and said, Give it up. my boy, give it up. I thought I had covered myself."

Hore Wilmer sighed ly, and paced up and down t mall dock before resuming..

Chief Inspector Prothero was

told him that he had been an officer then called. Wilmer, he said, had in the Essex Regiment, and had retired with the bonorary rank of captain.

In 1917, the inspector said, Wilmer joined the army, being sent overseas in January 1918. In March 1918 he was transferred to the Royal Engineers, and was de

nobilised in January 1919.

"He

"The increment value of the land Clothes-is found in would have grown beyond the the Perfect Tailoring was not wounded in the amount needed to clear themselves of BROWN'S war. He was retired as a sapper, of debt, and they would show that and holds no honorary rank as an life in the British Dominions can officer. He has represented himself be carried on independently, and na Major Melville and Major Wil-not na more purveying of raw ma..

torials and food to the homeland. mer. He is an imposter.

"It is only an idea at present." added Mr. Leakey, "But I think worth considering. It may never come about in my life-time, but who knows 7"

"For the past four years he has dono no honourable work.

"In 1023 he was adjudiented and is still undis bankrupt, charged."

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