Explanation that by Mathias's "Torture" He Meant Effect of Solitary Confinement Last week, Mr. E.T. Baitland, Police Prosecutor, appeared at the Mixed Court and made an application to Me. Martin, British Assessor, and Magistrate Kuan, that Mr. P.W. Goldring, solicitor, be called upon to retract @ statement he made to the court recently regarding alleged treatment of Oscar Mathias, who is detained in custody for debt. He characterized Mr. Goldring's statement as "wild, irresponsible, and untrue, and tending to bring the 'Model 'Settlement into disrepute.'
Mr. Goldring appeared at court last Friday and made his answer. He began by saying that he considered it to be absolutely wrong that anyone attached' to the court should have been allowed to make an ex-parte statement about another practioner without his being present to answer, and that a mo-fon should have been brought without his receiving notice of it as it reflected upon him as a member fof the Bar. He entirely denied that there wax anything untrue, wild or irresponsible in the statement made regarding—Mat! What he attacked was not the methods of the so-called Morel Settlement, or of the police, but the system' of imprisonment for debt.
The Assessor—You did say that the conditions of imprisonment mounted to little less than torture.
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