A MONTH'S GAOL
INTOXICATED DRIVER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Stating that leniency was wasted on men like the accused, Justices of the Peace sentenced Thomas Landreth, aged 28, to one month's imprisonment for intoxication in charge of a motor vehicle.
The police stated that Landreth was found in his truck on Saturday evening. One of his two companions was trying to crank the truck, while the-accused was sitting over the wheel in a very drunken condition.' All three men were drunk.- A gallon jar and four botles of beer were in the truck, so that although drunk the men were evidently intending a further carousal. Landreth was fined in April on a similar offence. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 15
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116A MONTH'S GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 99, 24 October 1938, Page 15
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