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Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 7

One of the brightest and best efforts in the Magistrate’s Court to date -was put over by Sub-inspector J. Fitzpatrick re l cently (says the Christchurch Sun). Samuel John Martin was striving to explain why he had got drunk for the fourth time in six months. “ I have had very bad heart trouble. I daren’t lie down in bed at nights. I wish to apply to go to the Old Men’s Home. The doctors have given me up. My heart is the whole trouble.” “Your Worship will observe that he has had four attacks in the last six months,” put in the sub-inspector succinctly. ’ Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., sent Martin to gaol for two month#;