YOUNG DRUG FIEND
HOW HE GOT MORPHIA SAID HE WAS DOCTOR Bernard Lux, a young man, stood in the dock at the Police Court to-day a self-confessed drug addict. Ho pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining morphia by false representation, and a further charge of stealing a money box containing £4. Chief-Betective Hammond said that accused had obtained the drug by representing himself as a doctor’s son and locum tenens for a country doctor. The money was stolen from a church. Mr. Conlan, who appeared for accused, said that Lux had undergone so many operations that he had become a drug addict.. . Counsel sugg'ested that accused should be sent to Roto Roa.
He was remanded for a week so that the necessary arrangements could be made.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 359, 21 May 1928, Page 1
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