ENCLOSURE 9.
C. O.
### FIRST CHARGE.
JOB PEAK pleads not guilty.
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ROBERT HENRY CRAIG states.-I am Assistant Superintendent at Victoria Gaol.
I visited the Gaol about 10.15 p.m. on the night of the 28th June, 1901.
I was wearing soft slippers. On entering the subway on the way to the temporary Hospital I heard a commotion in the ward of the temporary Hospital. I hurried up the steps.
I saw a Prisoner going towards his bed. He threw himself on his bed.
Warder Peak went to the end of the ward and took his boots from under a table and put them on.
I then called him to a window, and I saw then that he was under the influence of drink.
I saw that he was unsteady in his gait and he smelt strongly of liquor.
I then sent for the Orderly Officer, Principal Warder McLeod.
Before sending for McLeod I asked Peak if the hospital was all correct and why there was such irregular conduct as a prisoner running about in front of him.
Peak made no distinct reply but merely mumbled the number of prisoners whom he had in hospital.