ON A GOOD WICKET
The circumstances of a constable's first arrest of a man for drunkenness was revealed in the Magistrate's Court today, before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., during the hearing of a drunkenness charge. ' . The accused denied being drunk, and Mr. J. Meltzer, who appeared on his behalf, was questioning the constable who arrested him.
He had arrested about 45 men for drunkenness in two years, said the witness.
"How did you know the first man you arrested was drunk?" asked Mr. Meltzer.
"When a man is prone out, and has to be carried to the station on your shoulder, I should think he is drunk," replied witness, amid laughter! Mr. Meltzer: You were on a good wicket that time.
Witness: I was in the Mount Cook district.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 10
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130ON A GOOD WICKET Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1938, Page 10
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