OBITUARY -- Ernst T. Krebs Jr.

San Francisco Chronicle obituary (byline Stephen Schwartz, published 12 September 1996) reporting Ernst T. Krebs Jr. died at his San Francisco home on Sunday (8 September 1996) at age 85; cause of death not disclosed. Reports that Krebs was convicted in 1973 of practicing medicine without a license and of falsely representing laetrile as a cancer cure while dispensing it, for which he was fined; notes that in 1980 California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed a bill allowing laetrile prescriptions for terminally ill patients, but that later the same year Krebs was jailed for six months for violating his probation from the 1973 case. Byline and publication date confirmed by direct fetch (via reader proxy) of the article page; the 1973-conviction and 1980-jail wording above is a close paraphrase of that fetch, not logged as a page-verified verbatim quote (a raw, unproxied fetch of sfgate.com returned 403/blocked during this session).