SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL
INTO XIC A TED MOTORI ST By relpgraoti rtf-ss Association AUCKLAND, September 11. Sentencing an hotelkeeper. John Donald Shea, aged 46, to seven days’ Imprisonment in the Magistrate's Court to-day on a charge of intoxication while in charge of a car on August 10. Mr F. H. Levien, S.M.. said that he felt that the method of imprisonment, in such cases should be fully tested "to see if it would deal with this special evil." Shea’s arrest followed a collision between his car and a motor lorry on the Waterfront Road. He pleaded not guilty on Friday last, when the Magistrate reserved his decision. The defence raised was that Shea was suffering from an epileptic seizure, and medical evidence was called to show that he had been treated for seizures over a period of years. The Magistrate said that there was nothing in his medical history to suggest that this was in any special way responsible for the lapse.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21448, 12 September 1939, Page 6
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162SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21448, 12 September 1939, Page 6
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