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Captain Rumsey.

you drinking that day.

I saw you in your room on the 28th June all day until 5.90.

I informed Mr. Craig that you had not been drinking so far as I saw.

In the ordinary course of events I should have seen you drinking.

I saw Mr. Craig about 10.30, or somewhere after 10 o'clock, on the night of the 28th.

I was on duty at the time.

Craig asked me if Warder Peak had been drinking that day.

I said not so far as I was aware.

This conversation took place at the other end of the gaol.

Robert Henry Craig recalled.

To Captain Rumsey.

To General Gascoigne.

To Peak.

To Captain Rumsey.

To Attorney General.

To Captain Rumsey.

Dennis Doyle states:

Unless the officer had a duplicate key to the Surgery he would not get drink.

I have no reason for supposing that Peak had a duplicate key in his pocket.

The man was intoxicated, no doubt, and not merely fatigued.

A bottle might be brought in in the trousers but would not be visible.

The object of parading the officers is to see that they are sober.

I held the enquiry in the gaol.

I asked Peak to make his defence.

I did not ask him if he wanted to call any witnesses.

The case was considered the day previous.

The case was remanded, though I had made up my mind.

I am Warder in Victoria Gaol. I have been Warder nearly 6 years.

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