SAINTLY STANTON.

NZ Truth, Issue 133, 17 August 1907, Page 5

SAINTLY STANTON.

CHRISTCHURCH'S CHAMPION

CRIMINAL.

The Holy Horror and Pious

Quack

Found Guilty of Manslaughter.

.The muck-rake was dragged most furiously over the method employed by Billy Stanton to gain a crust at the Christchurch Supreme Court on Wednesday. Stanton is the pious fraud who carried oh a magnetic healing and general cancer curing business m Christchurch, preaching every Sunday night until bowled out by "Truth." It was then that he desisted and sold his property. The death of John Joseph Greaney, aged 18, from diptheria, not long ago got Stanton into trouble. He had not the ghost of an idea what diptheria ' was apnarently, and • when the young fellow said he had a sore throat he treated him for a sore throat, but' even the stuff he gave his patient wouldn't cure a sore throat or anything else. Powders dissolved m water was ordered, and a bit of flannel tied round the throat. On analysis those powders were found to consist ALMOST ENTIRELY OP SUGAR. The young fellow died m a few days for want of proper treatment, and as this precious scoundrel Stanton couldn't give a death certificate because he wasn't qualified, an inquest had to be held, and the fellow's gross ignorance and incompetence was exposed. It was only then that the family, the father, mother, and daughter, discovered that Stanton wasn't a doctor. They had thought he was, and addressed him: as such. Otherwise, the scamp would never have been allowed into their house. The criminal cade says that any person, unless m cases of necessity, who undertakes for gain to administer surgical or medical treatment, must have and use reasonable knowledge, skill, and care, and is criminally responsible for omitting any proper act IF DEATH IS CAUSED by such omission. If a man ! professes himself competent, and is found to be so ignorant as to cause the death of a person, that is punishable as the crime of manslaughter. This got Statiton against a wall, and he had little hope when 'before Judge and jury. Lawyer Harper appeared for him, Mr Stringer, K.C., representing the Crown, the jury found him guilty, and- sentence was deferred till next

day. Stanton, by the way, was once fined £50 m Bunedin for having the letters M.D. on his brass plate. So it is plain as a pikestaff that the pious fraud, whom no paper but "N.Z. Truth" had the courage to properly unmuzzle, has been carrying on. his quackery, and knowing, too, that he was breaking the law. Stanton was brought up for sentence on Thursday morning last, when Mr Justice Chapman sentenced the quack to four months' imprisonment.

It may take a long time to acquire a fortune at salting fish, but the man who can artistically "salt" a mine will scoop m- the dollars by the bagful. Most people will worader what has happened m Vivian-street, bufif they look closely at McGavin's, 16 Vivianstoeet, they will see that the Tie King has arrived: He- has brought with him the most extensive and best selected stock of both ladies' and gentlemen's neckwear <m the colony. So the people of Wellington should call m and make the aoqjuaintance of the celebrated Tie King and find out the way he can fit you out at prices never 'before heard of m Wellington.

(Egmont.) He loves the say Angora goat, That beast with a long and shaggy coat, About whom poets often wrote And .minstrels sung when lyre was smote. , He'd bring him here m ocean boat And on, Egmont's grassy slope He'd give the gay Angora goat Like the weazel and the stoat The right to make this land of hope His home for all eternity.