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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 15 September 1877, Page 3

-TO-THB EDITOE. {SiEiT— ln coming from, my hpuse to the Railway Station last night, a , ;lititle r before 10 o'clock, I picked up a "inari* helplessly' drunlr, ■[ ana* assisted him to mount 'his horse, starting him pn bfsway home. ,N dt^any* paces' from this, , JieyagainJj^Tjpjon^e^r^ad^nd^ was_the second time placed upbn"Tiii'"E6rse aflS" started homewards. Had this poor fellow fallen into pjiejof the-4it*jhe/? a '^*H further bn, |h ill he 1 ; have been smbthered. Had anything so "* painful happened.7|-shoul(i rl ]ha^. been, m. any way' blamable lor^noi/h^virig 3 given .him t in .charge of the,,policeman ? In -jny 1 various' journeys "l : 1bf ten I 'have t6 ; assist drunken men,. in, the^ satrie.w.ay^. and the question of ! my bwn^res'p^nfeibi^^ lity very naturally arises. If you can give information upon this siibjectr no doubt it \vill be valuable to others besides rixyself;— l'amJ &c;,j: ;0 6 I 10 -„.;"■ v T. G v Hammond. i , : . l^pmißj responsibility would ; dpubtle'ss ; ; attach ;tp 'jP^cp^resporident, mpfe : of a inbral .^'a'a .Vlegal characteri : person acce^ppr^ '.to- themdif's' stupifac^ tion by liqu.pr would of course be mainly; Iresponsible.—Ed:M.T.] -.".. - >;; ..- v ?