PAPAKURA CAR SMASH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 208, 3 September 1927, Page 10

PAPAKURA CAR SMASH.

ILLUSIONIST'S ASSISTANT

FINED.

BBJDGE AXB CAM SAHAGED. "IT IS A WONDER THEY ABE I ALIVE." Shoeing but alight evidence that lie had been involved In the Papakura bridge Mcadaxton Thursday William Yowy <2t) affMrad in. the Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Ir. E. CL Cutten, SJL, to: answer charges of nnlawfidly converting to'tis own toe a car haloed at XflOO/the property of CJmIH Joeepb Carter (better iotown as : "Outer the Great**), sad with driving withoot a license. Accused, who assists the illusionist 'on * the * stage, pleaded offered no eaplanaSenior Sergeant Edwards stated that the accused took the ear, which was practically new, without authority, and went riding in the Papakura district Encountering an nnmetaHed portion of the; road, nd not being aware of a bend, be crashed into a bridge, severely damaging both it and this car. It was a wonderthat any of the fourpaasengeri were alive after the smash. The accused goffered most, severing an artery in the hand and having five or sixstitches pot in it. It was estimated that it would cost £300 to effect repairs, to the ear. r- Garter the Great stated that the accused eame from America with, him under contract, and any breach of thai Contnet annulled the agreement. Ai the result of Young'a escapade, he wai not lawpramililus - position: until he - con suited a solicitor. He was bound U retartt accosed to Amfiir*, but ifhe-waj «pnt to prison he nrould later beeomai charge on the State, as the company wai leaving New Zealand shortly. In regan to having no fieense, Young was nom* * nally innocent, as hi American Ueena - had applied in Australia; and he though! the same Conditions were in force in th 1 Dominion. When in Mdboniiie witnesi ' said he had grven hia assistant permis * eion to use hiscar, and he probably aßEtimed from that that he could take i % — * stated that ft -Wee intmiltha; " the casebedealt with iraU»ediately, m ' Carter the Great's company would b * leaving forWhangarei on M«*»d*y. * j 1% said that the podtiai was,-quite peculiar, although the accuse) * had pleaded guilty. lt appeartd that n one had Jooluid into tbe potation ■ pro perly, and' Young waa brooght forwar s, to ba dealt with urgently. In the dr f. cumstanees thing was to fin t to impose a heavy penalty, not knowin s the extsnt of the damage that hadbee dope. , - - . - f --. r c,| AwnßC?l : was fined j£s, with costs,, o J.e f.isM.i.JUj-?, suyl oadmi to pay i o»H' do iJte io-'ud.'