More than once he has been known to be on a drunk.
He was drunk when he went aboard the excursion steamer, _Crested Foam_, when she was burned in the bay." "What ?" "It is true, Mr.Lee, every word of it.

Your daughter and a good many others think he was drugged by the boat-keeper, Barney Lynn, and lured on the steamer for the purpose of robbery.

But when he met Lynn he was already raving blind drunk, and Lynn merely took advantage of his helpless condition.

You can know that this is true if you will call or send a man to the saloon of Joe Connelly.

He went to Connelly's that night--or rather, the evening before--filled himself up on the vilest decoctions, and went out from there as drunk as a fool.