DRUNKEN MOTORIST
HOTELKEEPER SENT TO GAOL [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, September 11. Sentencing an hotelkeeper, John Donald Shea (46) to seven days’ imprisonment, in the Police Court, todav for intoxication while in charge of a car on August 10, Mr Levien, S.M.. felt that the method of imprisonment in such cases should ho fully tested 11 to soe 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 tho 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 there was nothing in his medical history to suggest that this was in any special way responsible for the lapse.
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Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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150DRUNKEN MOTORIST Evening Star, Issue 23368, 11 September 1939, Page 6
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