A DISTRESSING CASE.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1923, Page 4

A DISTRESSING CASE.

NLLSON, January 20

A local resident, a statuloiv first offender appeared on remand in the .Magistrate’s Court to-day before Mr T. E. Maunseli, S..M. charged wit b being found drunk. Defendant "as remanded last week lor medical tieutmeiit. He pleaded guilty and put in the following written statement to the .Magistrate: “1 am the victim of occasional outbursts and for lour days and four nights L have been in the Nelson lock-up and but for the Nelson police I. should not he here now. ! would be a dead man. Tim llils entailed upon them much extra labour r.nd much anxiety and is a work I think they have no right to be called upon to do. My case was a most seri- ' ous one and the doctor m charge ni vain tried to get me into the Nel- | son Hospital where f could easily h.nc been cured in half the Dme. T "•'» 1 In point out that the hospital i refuses these eases and shunts nil - 1 sponsihility on to the pnl><" j would he blamed if ,00--i n«ee « m ; ni . s f;7 ,v ;rVb.'se I„r ii,,, damned m hell, i . 1 novelv in remark* based on expel lew < nu, i ll " 1 . . 4 . \ orohilnDon the public interest- A i order would in my ea’-c j would only attract t« f . I and willing to procure th" 1"! I money. Nm'dhcr attack in-> i peeled in eight months time, j -p|, defendant iiuther n ■ tallv ineffective. 1 . . f< „. I Pin, and oftered to ‘ \ HiescIlieonle would not - n :■! L's.. rcopic w- : V><>l i<‘<* , lU I ‘ fore me t be v "d' 1,0 U i time. . . i T„ convicting '”‘l M,se!,ar",ng b- ■ fondant am! m-dering him to «”;> i expenses the Ylagisi i j r.., 51 , was a most distressing one - |le re pen led that d »o> '• ' olferi’d to nroeme liquor for lenfhud wlnl" he was proleb'l lirought hefoi-e him be odd Me-1 s,"crely with ibeia.