MEDICAL IMPORTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 2

MEDICAL IMPORTERS.

HOWARD FIIEEAIAN SENT XU GAOL, Received 20, 0,20 p.m. Sydney, November 20. As a sequel to the case in which a young farmer succcsslully brougnt, aa action against Freeman and Wallace for damages for wrongful treatment, Henry Rosenberg, otherwise Howard Freeman, 1 lias been sent to gaol for seven days by the Actiiig-Regisuar for prevarication i and evasion in connection with his bankruptcy examination.

Mr. Justice Cohen, in the case In question, said: I "There are occasions when in tiro public interest—however strong the desire of a judge to preserve his mind utterly undisturbed may be—lie should give fairly full expression to bis ledings. This is an occasion when the pub- ] liif interest calls for frank and outspoken expression of opinion upon t'ne methods adopted at this institute by those concerned in its. management. For cruel, cunning, unmeasured audacity and hypocritical pretence, I doubt whether the annals of the Courts of this State disclose a case to which these epithets could ibe nioi'e justJy!

applied. "This case is a strong illustration of man's inhumanity to man. -t shows how crafty, cunning, designing men, isi 'their haste and hunger for money, can set at naught the feelings and sufferings of their fellow-men, no matter what sacrifice may be involved in their machinations. Tlie circumstances of this case show to us humanity in one of its worst formß. The whole atmOßphere of the institution reeks, with wickedness, and it is only men with callous dispositions, with hearts of stone. I steeled perhaps by the hunger for money, who caa trade upon the credulity of their fellow-men as the proprietors of this institution preyed upon their fellow-men.