LADY HAMILTON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 6 October 1923, Page 19

LADY HAMILTON.

COMPANION SENT TO GAOL. Lady (Diana) Hamilton, who was recently charged at Marlborough Street Police Court with being incapably drunk, failed to appear for the adjourned hearing of the case. 6he was represented by Mr. Harry Myers, who produced a medical certificate that his client was suffering from nervous shock. Mr. Muskett, for the police, said he had seen the certificate, but It did not satisfy him. Mr. Myers: She is fighting the case, and is going to fight it right through. The magistrate agreed to a farther adjournment. Louis Contamin, who was driving the car which crashed into a lamp post In Regent Street, re-appeared to answer charges of being drunk in charge of a car, dangerous driving, and assaulting a constable who arrested him. He eald that on the day of the alleged otTenco be had arranged to meet Lady Hamilton. The Magistrate: Is that the right title? Mr. Preke Palmer (for Contamin): It must be. She cannot be "Lady Diana" unless she is the daughter of a nobleman, and she is the wife of a baronet. Mr. Muskett (to Contamin): Did you, In the police station, call her "dear"?—No; I made a mistake and called her "Dl." I usually call her "your Ladyship." He said he was coming up Regent Street when a woman ran out from behind • cab and rushed across the street. He realised he had either to drive Into her or Into the refuge, and chose the latter. On the charge of drunkenness the magistrate sentenced Contamin to one month's Imprisonment In the second division, and suspended his license for six months. On the charge of driving dangerously he was fined 1/ and ordered to pay £10 costs, and on the charge of assaulting the police he was fined 1/.