Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1912 — Test of Drunkenness. [ARTICLE]

Test of Drunkenness.

A novel test of drunkenness was tried by a doctor at Halesowen, Worcestershire, In a case in which a mas was charged with being drank In a ho* tel. When a police sergeant arrestedH the defendant he insisted upon being examined by a doctor, who put him through tests of battening up his waistcoat, standing on one leg and walking along a straight line. He failed in the first two tests and was';' successful in the third, The magistrate said that the first testwas certainly original. He held that tjte de - fendant was drunk and te . pay a nominal penalty.—Dundee Ad/ vertiser. -. '