DRUNK IN A CART.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 210, 5 September 1925, Page 10

DRUNK IN A CART.

•—i 4 ,— A fall from a .trap in Princes Street, Onehunga, at about 6 o'clock'last evening, resulted in Arthur James Groul, aged 36, being admitted to the hospital suffering from a broken knee. The circumstances attending the accident were related this morning at the Onehunga Police Court by Sergeant J. A. Cruickshank, when Thomas Albert Holt appeared before Mr. J. Laking, J.P., charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart. The two men were engaged hawking fruit, and while in Princes Street East Groul slipped off the step while alighting from the cart. Holt took him up to Dr. W. G. Scott, who found that one knee was fractured. After putting the leg in, splints he sent the patient to hospital in the ambulance by Constable Poll. In the meantime Contable F. W. Johnseu reached the surgery in answer to a rlug from Dr. Scott, and took Holt in charge as he was quite unable to take his horse and trap into the public street. Holt pleaded guilty to being drunk, but not while in charge of a horse and vehicle. Constable Poll said Holt wanted bail last night, and offered tlie turnout as security, as he owned it. Holt had 21 previous convictions against him, and in a few days he will be called upor. to answer a charge of a breach of his prohibition order, which expired yesterday. Holt was convicted and lined £2, or in default seven days' imprisonment, and was allowed until 10 a.m. on September S to pay the line.