PRONOUNCED DRUNK.
IN SPITE OF TEST EVIDENCE. LONDON, Sept. 13. -Herbert Morris, a London motorist, skidded and drove his car into some iron railing around Clapham Common. “You’re drunk,” said a police surgeo.ll when Morris was taken to the police station. “Prove it,” challenged Morris. The doctor then asked him to bala.nc« himself on one leg, walk the chalk line in a circle, and finally pick up a coin from the floor. Morris passed all these tests perfectly, but the doctor still insisted he was intoxicated. In court the physician explained his diagnosis by saying, “There are many degrees of drunkenness. A statesmah doubtless could make a speech in a drunken condition, but he could hot find the keyhole of his own front door.” As Morris admitted having had “six whisky and sodas” before his accident, the _Magistrate accepted the doctor’s version and fined him £B.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 October 1924, Page 7
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146PRONOUNCED DRUNK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 October 1924, Page 7
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