WAR VETERAN'S PLEA
"Next week is Coronation WeeK, your Worship, and;l would very much like to see the military procession, t1 .was recommended for the V.C., and got the D.C.M., Military Medal' and bar," said Felix Milligan, a labourer, aged 46, to Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, when pleading guilty to his fifth statutory offence of drunkenness. Milligan offered to take out a prohibition order against himself. . '•■ . I
"But you broke prohibition orders twice in 1934 and twice in 1935," said the Magistrate.
"But I do want to see the procession," replied Milligan. "You don't think you are likely to get drunk again on Coronation Day?" asked his Worship. "Not me," said the defendant. /'Well, you. know what will happen if you do it again," declared his Worship. The defendant was discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11
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137WAR VETERAN'S PLEA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 11
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