A SAD CASE.
Drink was responsible for bringing a respectable wife and mother into the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on a charge of theft. The history of the case was sad. A young woman of 20, who had a good husband in a fair position, and also two little-children, was ordered, during an illness, to take port wine as a medicine. As a result. the fatal craving developed, and at last, under the influence of liquor, she was caught shop-lifting and handed over to the police. In consideration of her previous good character, the Magistrate took a lenient view of the case. He convicted and prohibited the woman, and admitted her to probation for two years. When the leaders of the medial profession in Great Britain have declared alcohol valueless as a medicine, when United States physicians have refused it a place in their Pharmacopia, surely it is time* the lesser lights of the profession ceased ordering it and turning respectable women into criminals.
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White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 15
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163A SAD CASE. White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 248, 18 February 1916, Page 15
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