THE GENUS "DRUNK."

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1931, Page 10

THE GENUS "DRUNK."

POLICEMAN'S EXPERIENCE

SERGEANT KNOWS THEM ALL. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, January 15. In Pyrmont, Sydney, there is a station sergeant of police who might.be dubbed the° absolutely last word in judging "drunks." In fact, he shyly admitted to the Central Police Court bench this week that if there is anything about drunks ho doesn't know, then it isn't worth knowing. He was giving evidence against a woman charged with being drunk and disorderly, and when the Magistrate asked him to state his knowledge of the genus "drunk" he threw off the following comprehensive description of his ripe experience. "I have studied the habits of drunks in all their stages. I have seen them come into the station drunk and go out quite sober, I have seen them come in almost sober and go out drunk. "I have seen the noisy drunk and the quiet drunkj the violent drunk and the playful drunk; the calm drunk and the agitated drunk. I've seen them drunk in the legs and sober in the head; sober in the legs and drunk in the head. I've seen them partly drunk, half drunk, and what I might call partly sober. To me, in my district; they come in every stage and I claim to have had ripe experience." The Magistrate was satiefietl, and after that dissertation, the wonian concerned had nothing to say.