INTOXICATED IN CAR.
CRIPPLED FOR LIFE IN CRASH. THREE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 19. Crippled for life as a result of a crash in a converted motor-car on April 7, while intoxicated, William Morrison, aged 33, rested on crutches in the Magistrate’s Court to-day sobbing like a child, as he pleaded with Mr Wyyern Wilson, S.M., for another chance. Morrison pleaded guilty to charges of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car at Cliff Road, St. Heliers, and the unlawful conversion of a car valued at £.175, the property of Northern Automobiles, Ltd. The police said that a salesman left the car outside a tea-room. Morrison was seen to enter the car and drive it off. While' descending a hill, the car crashed into a telegraph pole. Morrison was admitted to hospital seriously injured. The accused was out of prison only a short while before for an almost similar offence.
“You ask me to give you a chance,” said the magistrate'. “I would consider it a gross breach of the probation laws to admit you to probation. Seldom does one meet with such a long record of vagrancy and taking cars without authority. If it was not for your serious condition I would put you away for a long stretch.” Morrison was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the intoxication charge and convicted and discharged on the conversion charge.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 264, 20 August 1936, Page 7
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