A mail named Barron Gardner, charged at Hunterville with" representing himself as a, doctor, was fined £25 and costs. Alex. McLean, farmer. Silvcrhope, deposed that defendant called ..at his house ajui asked what waa the matter with witness. Told him that through an acoiden'fc lie had been injured m the lungs. Defendant sounded him, and. said that •his lungs wero^ .sound, though, rather tight. He said he could cure him. Witness addressed him as a doctor. Defendant guaranteed to cure him for two guineas. Got five bottles of medicine From him.i Asked wliat one bottle -.was; for, and defendant said "for your head and braiins." Gave defendant a cheque for two guineas. Would not have coiusultwl "him liad he not thought he was a dor.tnr. When addressed as a "doctor" defendant never corrected witness. Jk Annio Cuff, another witness, said she informed defendant she was not m good ■health, and Ihj said he would cure htr m ten weickii. He gaAe her five bottles of medicine, and she paid him two guineas. . 'flit, five bottles tasled all alike, and witness did not think the medicine did her any good. He described himself as a - jpecalififr for
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10139, 27 August 1904, Page 3
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