A REMEDY FOR GARROTTING.
(To the Editor.) Shy—Noticing that the Old World game of garrotting threatens to have a run in Auckland, might I suggest the adoption of what was known in Edinburgh as '-"Dr. Littlejohn's cure" for this cowardly form of personal violence. Perhaps 40 years ago, I might say at random, garrotting was very prevalent in Edinburgh, and all that the police could do had no effect in cheeking the lawlessness; but Dr. Littlejohn, the then medical officer for the city, published a letter in the press advising people who had occasion to be out late to carry an ordinary sharp-pointed pen-knife in their hand, open and with the blade pointing out behind them "as he did." The good doctor's cure was thoroughly effective at once, "as no garrotter will run the risk of even a half-inch puncture of the bowels!" said he. Such a puncture, over and above the grave chance of proving a fatal wound, effectually exposes the culprit for obvious reasons. I shall certainly follow this sound advice.—l am, etc., "PRO BONO PUBLICO." Remuera, April 14, 1904.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 3
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182A REMEDY FOR GARROTTING. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 3
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