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EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT CASE.

«■ An extraordinary assault case has been heard at Sydney. A Catholic priest and a medical man Lad a dispute in th© bedroom of a dying woman as to whether prayers should be permitted or not. The patient was a Mrs Richardson, of Waverley. Some days previously she had embraced Koman Catholicism, and Father Garavel paid her several visits. On one particular day when he went to administer the sacrament of extreme unction, he for the first time met Dr. Head. The patient was asked by the priest if they should have some prayer. Dr Read says she replied in a tone of indifference. She had been under the influence of chloral hydrate, and was returning to consciousness. Dr. Read, as a medical man, would not allow prayers, or anything else which might excite the patient. The next instant doctor and priest were struggling violently for the mastery, and they became so excited in their efforts to turn one another out they seemed scarcely to be aware that they were on the patient's bed. Father G-aravel laid violent hands upon Dr. Read's right whisker, and fetched it completely away Dr. Read's whiskers were long. Subsequently the left had to be shaved off, in order that the doctor might go upon " an even keel." ' " Both of ÜB," says the priest, " whirled out of the door. We went out spinning, lor waltzing." As a matter of fact, they { were put out by Mrs Read, who a short time before was sitting at the dying woman's bedside. The domestics, who sympathised with the priest, offered to turn the doctor out ; but Mrs Read silenced them. No further wrestling occurred, but the two gentlemen had a long argument in an outer room. Ultimately, Father Garavel asked forgiveness, and the two shook hands ; but Dr. Read only forgave his antagonist personally, not professionally ; and in his professional capacity he brought an action agaiust Father G-aravel, in the Sydney Water Police Court, for an assault. The justices found that Mr Garavel commenced the attack, and fined him 20s, with 5s lOd costs. The parties shook hands as they left the court. But the patient, in whose sick-room the altercation took place, died.

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Southland Times, Issue 1643, 4 October 1872, Page 3

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368

EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT CASE. Southland Times, Issue 1643, 4 October 1872, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT CASE. Southland Times, Issue 1643, 4 October 1872, Page 3

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