Peter Peck
Kentucky Post, Monday, 13 January 1930, page
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Judge Alfred G Maybury of Newport Police Court was very obliging Monday when Peter Peck, 86, living in a house boat at the foot of West 11th st. Newport, was arraigned for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
"My house boat is cold and I want you to put me in jail for the winter," the defendant requested. "If you don't put me in I'll keep on drinking and causing your police trouble until you will have to put me away," the accused continued.
"How many days do you want?" the court asked. "Fifty days will be enough I guess," Peter replied. "Let 50 dys in jail be the court's order," Maybury ruled. "Of course, you will be an expense to the city to feed you, but if you were out you would be just as expensive to have the police bring you in." Maybury added.