UNLUCKY STOREMAN
FOUND INTOXICATED IN BACK OF CAR MAGISTRATE SYMPATHETIC To be found in the back of his motor-car sleeping off the effects of over-indulgence in liquor was the unfortunate experience of Leslie Roy Plummer, who was charged at the Police Court this morning with being found intoxicated in charge of a car. M R - ALAN SMYTH pleaded .guilty for Plumer who was described as a storeman, aged 34. The case was described by SubInspector McCarthy as peculiar. Plummer, who was a returned soldier, had gone to. a reunion of the engineers on Saturday evening. He was not in the habit of taking liquor, and had taken more than was good for him. “He went out to his car and climbed into the back to sleep off the effects,” continued the sub-inspector. “He was still there when the constable arrived.” Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Where else was the man to sleep? The Sub-Inspector: The danger was that he would wake up and drive off. Mr. Smyth agreed with the remarks of the sub-inspector. In his opinion the man was more to be commended than not. He had not been so drunk that he could not realise that It was best tor him to get somewhere out of the way. “I think he has been punished enough,” commented the magistrate. Plummer was convicted and discharged.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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