TRIAL BY ORDEAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 3 February 1886, Page 2

TRIAL BY ORDEAL.

Alfred anJ George Gamier, connection" efg at No 57, James Street, ifeiy Ypr(:> lyore oji trjajhefore judgeOowing' jh tlxe Court recently for selling impure capcjy. fir Cyrus Edjson, of the Buar4 qf Health, had. one of his oiljcers visit the plaoe and purchase cooqiwufc qandjywhiqh, ' when submitted to analysis, he said was shown to ; have been made pf decayed (jocoanuta, and unfit tp eat, Likewise hs said that a couple of oakos fed to lub hoine, as an experiment, had made ,the animal frightfully sick.. Alfred Gamier testified that he had alwayn used good stock during thirty years of iußiness. His nephew, George, corroborated thiß statement. " Will you eat this candy?" asked es Judge Bedford, (ft? wppytljt', The Witness exposed hia tidiness to do'fo, ati'd being handed wine oaW' miraehefcitWtlr Seemitrg elitisfibtibii, frequently''' smackiflg his lips; He chewed oh for several miiiutes, and then Mr Bedford asked him : h6tv i| " rata, Qfjly aMe di, !! rs.p.liec| the ficouaao'd conf6etioperl : '" f-is niarftipatilin'bf created a lqngjns for sonif! pf it ill Bevoral mpmhera of the jury, itipluding the foreman, and they Wked the privi]ego pf testing its purity. They were given some, and seemed to enjoy it, They promptly acquitted the prisonors,