MEDICAL COMFORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 44, 21 February 1905, Page 2

MEDICAL COMFORTS.

LICENSING PROSECUTION AT WATrJT, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspoadeat.) WAIHI. this day.

The case. Police v. T. Gardner. Which comes before Mr Bush, S.M., on Wednesday, is exciting much interest locally. The police naturally decline to give their version of the' case bef6re the sitting of the Court. Gardner's statement, however, is that after hours on nth inst. he went to Kelly's Hotel for some pin for his wife, who was very ill. Entering through the back yard he encountered Sergt. Sheehan and two constables. He intimated to the sergeant, that he was going into the. hotel lor some gin lor his wife, and remarked that be supposed it would he alright. The sergeant replied that as far as thpy were concerned they could do nothing in the matter. Gardner then 'entered the hoteJ at the back door. The bar was closed, and, seeing Mr and Mrs Kelly in Ihe passage, he asked them for a shilling's worth of gin. The request was refused, and then Gardner explained that he had had a conversation with the sergeant outside, but the request was again refused. On returning home he found his wife's condition rather worse, arid he made a second appeal to Kelly, but -was met with another refusal.' Ho went upstairs and saw Mrs Kelly, but she deelinpd to serve him. In desperation Gardner searched a clifpbcor9 , ' , sri' , fhe , sßtih'g-room, and in the presence of sbnie of the boarders took a partly-filled bottle of gin from within.. He at the same time asked those' present to acquaint Mrs Kelly of what he had done: he -then hurried out, but was intercepted in the street near the hotel by the sergeant, and was asked, what he had got. He t-old the sergeant hr had got a bottle of gin, and explained the circumstances ~«oH/£x which he bewttnp possessed of it. The sergeant asked Gardner for the bottle and retaiued it. the summons following.