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Peak calls as witnesses:

Albert Terrett, P.S.21 states:

"At about 10.45 P.M. on the night that Warder Peak was ordered from the Gaol I was standing at the charge-room door at the Central Police Station, the Gaol. Warder Peak came down the steps leading from

As he passed me I wished him good-night. He then stopped and held a short conversation with me lasting about 5 minutes.

At the conclusion of that time he asked me if I thought he was drunk. I told him I could not see any indication of his having been drinking at all.

He then informed me that he had been ordered from the Gaol for having been drunk and left me and went away in the direction of his quarters.

Peak appeared by his conversation and the straight manner in which he walked away to be perfectly sober.

He asked me if I would come as a witness for him. I told him that he must apply officially for that, as I could not volunteer to come as a witness.

That is all.

To Mr. Lockhart. I did not detect the slightest smell of drink about him. I was standing quite close to him. I had just come off duty.

To Mr. Ball Irving. There were lamps there right close overhead.

To the Attorney General. I had been speaking to him about