DRIVEN ROUND TOWN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 68, 22 March 1927, Page 11

DRIVEN ROUND TOWN.

DRUNKEN MAN FAILS TO PAY. DRIVER TAKES HIM TO COUF.I HI T t.KT- X<> S Y.M PATH Y. {Uy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) rHKISR HI Kl 11. this day. "It was not right for thi-s man to driw a drunken man in.iinl the city without lir-t a«king aU.u: hi- tare, and then t tin' police to collect the munev 1 •>" charging the passenger with a criminal o tie net*. said Mr. K. D. Moslev, s -M-, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, \ lien Furneaux -lames Cameron pleaded guilty to being drunk in Hereford Street, tut not guilty to a charge that on March 21, by incurring a liability of £1 to .7chn Rutherford, he obtained a credit ly fraud. Rutherford said he was a taxidriver, and accused, who had had liquor, got into his car and was driven round the town. .Accused did not know exactly \.iiere he wished to he driven.»and did not {■ay his fare of £1 when it was demanded. I he Magistrate: You did not ask him ahotit paying before he got into the car? No. The Magistrate: I am not satisfied '.hat credit was obtained by fraud. The police agreed, and said they had no >vmpathy with the taxidriver. Tlje charge of obtaining credit by fraud «a< dismissed.