INTOXICATED MOTORIST
TERM OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED (United Press Association) DUNEDIN. October 24. 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 motorThe police stated that Landreth was found drunk 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 bottles of beer were in the truck, so tha although drunk the men evidently intended to have a further carousal. . Landreth was fined in April, for a similar offence.
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Southland Times, Issue 23648, 25 October 1938, Page 3
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