TROLLEYMAN’S BOUT

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 March 1922, Page 5

TROLLEYMAN ’S BOUT

— ————— — advice from, bench. (Special to the Star.) CHRISTCHURCH, Alarch 6. At the Alagistrate’s Court to-day, Howard Alalone, sixty-two years of age, appeared on remand charged with having been found in a state of helpless drunkenness on February 4.’ AVhen asked how he wished to plead, accused said that he remembered nothing of the occurrence. Sub-Inspector Simpson said that tho man was arrested in a state of helpless drunkenness. Delirium tremens developed and when he reached Hie police station the man was in a bad way and had lost his memory. He was still very shaky. Accused had come over from the AVest Coast, and had been drinking since January 24. Accused said that he had been working at a timber mill on the AVest Coast as trolleyman. He could go back to his job to-morrow. The Magistrate said that accused would be convicted and ordered to pay expenses amounting to 355. “AVhat about a prohibition order, Alalone?” asked the Magistrate, ‘‘do you think it would help you.” “I don’t think so, your AVorship,” replied Alalone, ‘‘this is just periodically.” ‘‘You can of course help yourself more than a prohibition order could,” said the Alagistrafe, “I won’t issue an order in the circumstances.”