Where Does the Blame Lie?

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6546, 15 May 1889, Page 3

Where Does the Blame Lie?

At half-past eleven on Monday evening two young men named Williaui Gordon and Thomas Scott, who were walking along the Lincoln road, near St .Asaph street, saw a respectable girl, who was taken suddenly ill, staggev td the nearest fence, and collapse in a tainting condition. The girl was, with some assistance, taken into Mr J. King's house, close at hand, and the police were informed of the matter. Mrs King was unwell, and there was no room in the house, so Constables O'Leary and \ Allen went to the Hospita}, and applied ] for tho admission of the patient, who, up to this time, had not been identified, with j the following result, as reported by tho police: — "The doctor thou iuformed us, through the nurse, tbat they would not admit her without a doctor's certificate. We then got Dr Nedwill to examine the girl, and he gave the necessary order, and the girl was then removed to the Hospital on the ambulance stretcher." At 2.45 a.m., when the police left, the girl had not recovered consciousness. The remark was endorsed on the report next day that nothing serious was the matter.