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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 301, 4 December 1936, Page 7

“SEEING THE QUACK!" The death of Lord Moynihan, the famous surgeon, recalls an occasion when he was consulted by a soldier who was suffering from nothing more serious than a boil. The soldier, who Is now a business man in Auckland (says the Star), relates how, when on furlough in 1915, he was In Liverpool (his home town), when a nasty boil developed on the back of his neck. “You ought to let the quack have a look at that.” a comrade told him, and the sufferer said he would. “I should probably not have bothered about It,” he said, when relating the incident, “but one aftern.on when it was particularly painful I happened to be passing a big block of buildings, and noticed the name-plates of several doctors. ‘Any one will do for me,’ I thought, so up a big flight of stairs I went and knocked at the first door I found. I was shown into a fine consulting room—very ‘posh’ it looked, too—• and in a little while in walked a cheery-little bloke. I was told afterwards that he was Sir Berkeley Moynihan, but that didn’t mean much to me. I just wanted to see a quack. He was very nice, and said, ‘Oh, we’ll soon get that fixed up. But why did you come to me?’ ‘Oh,’ I said, innocent-like, T just wanted to get it attended to. Anybody will do.’ I noticed that he smiled at this, but I was thinking about my boil more than anything else. Anyway, he sent me into another room, and a young doctor came along and lanced the boil for me. When I asked him what I owed him he said, Sir Berkeley says that’s all right.’ They wouldn’t take a bean. Yes, I reckon he was a good quack.”

The slaying of a great opera tenor 1 efore 20,00(1 witnesses in the famous Hollywood Bowl, forms the unusual motivation for "Moonlight Murder” in which Chester Morris becomes a detective and, aided by Madge Evans, solves one of 'the oddest crime mysteries fiction has ever created.

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