A CAUTION TO QUACKS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13368, 19 August 1907, Page 6

A CAUTION TO QUACKS.

11l pa.ssing sentence upon "Stanton. th-e llfill- r," Mr Justice Chapman said Hint he was v,rv s-orrv to have t ! ' inflict. punishin lit. on man of apparent respectability, but lie coulil not avoid doing i;o. Prisoner s conns-1 had mad: 1 the suggestion that tlrcaii • might dealt with by a fine. He did not. limv, ver. think that would bo hl all appropriate for Mich a case as this was. for it. 'would then go forth that a man wild could atford to pay a line obtained different treatment from one who could not. Hemust. in the interests of justice inflict ;!i sentence of imprisonment. The sent-enc-a that he proposed to inflict was not. a long out', though lie had 110 doubt that it woidd fall upon him as a. ■ •-vere punishment. He could not overlook the fact that the prisoner was acting in Christchurch apparently as a ln 'dical man or a man posse s-'ed of skill. Tin- ("Jrcaneys v.-ue labouring people and hail gono to him in the beli"f that h i was p<i--<>-s d of the skill requisite totriat tin- lad. lU> Honour) did not think tint i>iisfsn?r had < ver appreciated what, was the mallcr wilii til" lad. and he did not doubt- prisoner was humanely inclined, and wHied to treat the lad according t'> the i'-,''|Jiiiom:n!s of ill.' case. But when a man had entivd into a business such as tho prisoner had eni-red int*'. and undertook boldly the treatment of cases about which lie knew nothing, tin- law inss-tad that must take the con-erjilFnces. otherwise there would bo 110 security for the health and life of the public. In all thecircumstance?-, hj? thought it sufficient, though til--; law held tli<? prv-iojier responsible for th? death of tile young man, to f"»:t eno; !he nrivoner to four months' im-pri-onmrnf. He would ask the an! horiti's to that- ihe prisoner was kept apart from contact with undt>-:irabVs.