INTOXICATED IN CAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 79, 13 January 1940, Page 2

INTOXICATED IN CAR.

FINE OF £3O IMPOSED. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) WELLINGTON, January 12. “Were it not for the fact that his wife is subject to illness, I would not hesitate to send this man to gaol,” declared M-r A. M. Goulding, S.M. in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when convicting Victor William Eyles, a ship’s officer, aged 48, of driving a motorcar while intoxicated. Eyles was fined £3O and costs, and was forbidden to drive again until May, 1941. Sub-Inspector E. T. C. Turner, who prosecuted, said that last Saturday morning a motor-car driven by Eyles bad been seen to broadside across the tram rails at the intersection of John Street and Riddiford Street, causing a traffic jam. The vehicle had been reversed and had collided with a lamppost and letter box. It then proceeded along Riddiford Street into Constable Street, where it struck a parked car, pushing it 21ft Gin along the footpath. When arrested, Eyles had been found to be under the influence of liquor. For Eyles, it was submitted that his wife was ill, and that he bad an unblemished character. He had only bad two beers and some brandy on Saturday morning, it was stated, part if his condition at the time he was arrested being due to the fact that he bad been injured in an accident.