HELPLESSLY DRUNK?
BUSHMAN AND POLICE DIFFER CHANGE ON CHARGE-SHEET Was Cornelius Bryan just-drunk or helplessly drunk? Opinions differed in the Police j Court yesterday. They read like thisi . Cornelius: Well. I’ll admit I had a few drinks. But helplessly drunk? No, I was not. I’m quite sure of that. Suh-Inspector McCarthy: He was so near to being helplessly drunk that there was practically no difference. Constable Who Arrested Cornelius: He was very erratic. He had been on a drinking bout for a week. Mr. F. K. Hunt,- S.M.: He’d better be remanded, so that he can get over it. The charge against Bryan, who is a bushman, aged 46, was a variation from the usual counts of drunkenness. He was accused of being found in a state of helpless drunkenness. The police said that accused was arrested at College Hill as the result of a complaint. “If he Is let out straight away,” Mr. McCarthy remarked to Mr. Hunt, “he will get drunk again.” Bryant was remanded until to-day “To see how he looks,” Mr. Hunt said.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 11
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177HELPLESSLY DRUNK? Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 11
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