SICK MEN AND POLICEMEN.

Free Lance, Volume XIV, Issue 692, 4 October 1913, Page 6

SICK MEN AND POLICEMEN.

The If-He's-111-He-Must-Be-Drunk Idea. BT DAY or two ago a young man who had stopped a runaway horse - in Victoria-street got a bad splinter from the shaft imbedded- in his thumb, and he went to a chemist, who extracted the 1 splinter. Then the young man his bike, rode a few yards, and fell off in a faint on the road. Then the usual thing happened. The young fellow came to hie senses surrounded by a gaping crowd, and leaning over him was a constable who sternly bade him go home at once. Aa the young man was not actually arrested and charged with being drunk and disorderly, it may be taken that this was a superior constable. However it be, it is plain eriongh that the constables, heed considerable official instruction on these points. More than once lately a sjck man taken to the lockup and charged with beine drunk, has died in the cells, and that is the sort of things .that should not permitted to happen in any civilised country.