Leonard Arthur Cramp [38337]
- Born: Abt 1887, <England>
- Died: After 1932, <England>
 Noted events in his life were:
• Newspaper: TEST FOR SOBBIETY, 1932 Dec 24, Charters Towers, , Queensland, Australia. 1 TEST FOR SOBBIETY. (1932, December 24). The Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld. : 1874 - 1954), p. 8. Retrieved July 2, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80651199>
TEST FOR SOBRIETY
HANDWRITING EXAMINED.
Handwriting as a test for drunken-
ness was mentioned at Bromley, Eng-
land, when Leonard Arthur Cramp,
aged 45, taxi-cab driver, was charged
with being under the influence of
drink white driving his cab; and also
with driving in a dangerous manner.
It was stated that Cramp was taken
into custody after a slight collision
between his cab and a private car.
A doctor who examined him at the
police station declared that in his
opinion the man was not fit to have
charge of a car at that time. He
asked Cramp to write his name and
address and a short sentence on a
piece of paper. The sentence he
wrote was: "Dear Sir, The weather
has been very bad to-day." After he
saw, specimens of Cramp's normal
handwriting, which was extremely
good.
Cramp, giving evidence, explained
that he was one of the old band of
"horse cabbies," but had driven a
taxicab for the last few years. He
had had a clean record for 30 years.
The Bench inflicted a penalty of
£5, and ordered Cramp to pay £4/14/6
costs, the chairman remarking that
his license was automatically sus-
pended. The summons for dangerous
driving was dismissed.
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