HE WAS DRUNK
DRIVER'S BREATH TESTED
SOME NEW POLICE CHECKS,
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.
George Elliot, 4035, Twenty-sixth Street, had the honour of being given the first reading with the new police “intoximeter.” at the Central Emergency Hospital last night. Elliott’s automibile and one driven by W. S. Grubb, Eureka prohibition agent, were in collision at Taylor and Ellis Streets. When Elliott crawled frcin under the wreckage, Policeman John Thomas sniffed his breath and took him to the hospital. “Draw a circle!” he was told. He did. Barring a few sharp corners i. was. a pretty good circle. “Now pat a cross in the centre o! it!” Tile cross landed in the upper light-hand corner. “Now blow in this bag.” Elliot’ blew. The attendants forced hi: breath from, the hag into a test tube filled with some chemical. The chemical turned red, green and orange The pointer went up to 1140, and a bell rang. “Intoxicated!” wrote the hospita interne after Elliott’s name. He will appear in Court.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 3
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168HE WAS DRUNK Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1932, Page 3
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