DRUG ADDICT IN COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1018, 8 July 1930, Page 1

DRUG ADDICT IN COURT

SOUTH AFRICAN POSES AS DOCTOR

REMAND TILL TOMORROW

On two charges of obtaining drugs bv false pretences. Phillip Henry Ross, a South African, came up for sentence at the Police Court th:s morning, ana was remanded until tomorrow. Ross, who was charged with procuring live grains of cocaine from »n Auckland doctor on June 23, w jth intent to defraud, and on or about tho same date obtaining drugs by means of false pretences, was represented by Mr. Noble. "The facts are that in the first case Ross went to an Auckland doctor and stated that he was a doctor off the steamer Mahana." said Chief-Detec-tive Hammond. “He managed to

secure some cocaine. Later, he went to another doctor, and by means of the same story got a prescription for five grains, which he turned Into IS grains, securing this amount from a chemist. The man is a nuisance, and a drug addict. He is always going down to ships, saying he is a doctor, and attempting to secure drugs." Mr. Hunt: Yes. he’s been in every gaol in South Africa. Mr. Noble admitted that his client seemed to be insane on the subject of drugs. He understood that Ross had once been a doctor.

Mr. Hunt: He’s never been a doctor in his life, though his father was a well-known one. I have received a report from his relatives at Masterton. who say he is hopeless, and a liar to boot. They have sent him home onca and they wish they could send him away again. "I would like to say that I have no relatives in Masterton at all,” said Ross.

Mr. Hunt said he would remand the case until tomorrow to enable Mr. Noble to see the report from the relatives of Ross at Masterton.