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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 316, 23 December 1936, Page 8

Doctor Magistrate ‘Wallis Out’ r—.. 1 TREATS SlftK PRISONER, THEN SAYS IT IS INHUMAN TO GO ON. When a piiseuur, who was wrapped in a blanket, fainted in his seat at Newark (Notts) B-orough Police Court, England, Dr. P. Kinmont, one of the magistrates, attended him and then left the court as a protest against continuing the case. “It is inhuman,” he said. “I cannot stay on the bench any more to-day.” The Mayor asked the prisoner, Clifford Harrison, of Lincoln, who was said to have swallowed a fork in his w.., if ho was satisfied with his treatment, and he replied “Yes.” Harrison was committed for trial on three charges of fraud, it being alleged that he advertised for tenders to build a factory, asking £5 to be enclosed for tender forms. Three firms sent money, it was stated. He also was charged with attempting suicide, it being stated that a serious operation had to be performed after the fork-swallowing incident. : Interviewed by a Daily Sketch repre- j sentative, Dr. Kinmont said it seemed an absolute farce to bring a man back into court when he had recovered somewhat, put him on a table and continue. “He was so ill that he could not possibly understand the evidence that was j being given, and the witnesses had to be < placed close to him while giving —r j evidence,” he said. ; “I have never seen anything like it. | I thought a court was a court of law i and justice, but it did not appear to me I to be so in this case. “I made my protest, and that’s all 1 ■ can say.”