“FRUITY” BREATH

Evening Star, Issue 20010, 30 October 1928, Page 10

“FRUITY” BREATH

ALCOHOL OH APPLES! DRUNKEN DRIVER'S EXCUSE. You can get an alcoholic breath by eating oranges and apples. This ounio out at the. ra.rrnm.aUa Court, Sydney, when Robert Bailie, horse trainer, was charged with driving o. car while drunk, daring which timo he knocked down a girl on the Parramatta road. Bailie said he was out with the Bishop of Papua and a, couple of priests in the morning. and went to Canterbury in the afternoon, but be had not-had a drink all day. He had had oranges and apples for his lunch. Dr A. R. M'Leod said that he thought from the evidence that Bailie's alcoholic breath came from the oranges and apples he. had been eating. This fruit contained the same essential oik as alcohol. Mr Williams, S.'M.: So, if a person has been eating oranges the smell of his breath could be taken for that o: alcohol? —Yes. Hut Bailie was fined £2O and ordered to pay £5 12s 6d cost?. He was also suspended from holding a motor driver's license for :avo vear.<. OTHER DOCTORS DOUBTFUL. College Street Doctor: Theoretically speaking, all suggar or stnrch foods ferment and produce alcohol, but in my opinion the doctor’s theory at court was a bit far fetched. Another Doctor: Perhaps it was whisky with orange bitters that the defendant in the case was drinking. I think it would he easy to tell the difference between the breaths of a man eating orange? and apples and n man drinking alcohol.