DRUG VICTIM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1940, Page 3

DRUG VICTIM

ACTRESS SAID TO BE CURED. Margaret Burton, the . twenty-eight-year-old film actress, who last June was bound over on a drug charge' on condition that she undertook a cure, was at Marylebone Police Court stated to be cured. Miss Burton received heroin in the pages of magazines seiit from America to her London home. It was disclosed that her supplies had been sent Joy ‘Red Lewis,” a notorious United States drug peddler, who is how in prison. Mr H. A. K. Morgan, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, asked for Miss Burton’s discharge under the Probation Offenders Act, and this was granted. After the case Miss Burton said: “I know I was wasting my life. I couldn’t work or sleep. I was mixing with other addicts and loathing myself and them. I was getting desperate, but I was so ashamed of being an addict that I couldn’t pluck up courage to go to a doctor. In the end it sapped my sense of right and wrong. I got myself arrested for shop-lifting—-a thing I could never have contemplated normally. When the magistrate forced me last June to take a cure, I determined to co-operate with the doctor and nurses to the full. For the first twelve days life was ghastly."