SONGS AS SOBRIETY TEST
CAPTAIN’S TONGUE-TWISTER. Because he was able to sing on the way to a London police station the ditty “When My Father I.athers Me, Lather's Rather Free. Cap ram Gordon Crickmay told the London magistrates that he must have been sober. He added that the policeman hummed the accompanimend Captain Crickmay re-sang a verse in the witness-box to prove that it was a tongue-twister. The charge against him of having been drunk in charge of a motor car was dismissed.
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Shannon News, 28 February 1928, Page 1
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83SONGS AS SOBRIETY TEST Shannon News, 28 February 1928, Page 1
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