After the jury had returned its verdict an extraordinary story of Davies's career was disclosed by Detective Inspector James, of the Port-south City Police, who said that according to his birth certificate his name was George Maxim Davidson.
The officer said that after leaving his wife Davies became "Dr, Davies, INROS, LRCP," giving the address of a doctor who had died in Norfolk, "He has stated that he was [locum tenons to a well-known Harley Street physician.
After a car accident Davies was awarded £250 special damages in the High Court under the name of Dr. Davidson," "He has no right or ground whatever for styling himself a doctor, being without qualification or medical training. The police are in possession of names of people he has attended as a doctor, in some cases giving injections for various cómplaints. He is also said to have attended maternity cases, carrying the usual surgical instruments."
The officer declared that Davies gave a well-known variety artist 40 injections for sugar diabetes, but it was afterwards found that the man was not suffering from the complaint for which Davies had prescribed, "He has obtained from an elderly widow at Bayswater £653, He pretended he was her doctor. He obtained from her £200 for costs of an operation'ünd £200, as he said, to help him out of difficulties with the Me-
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