YOUNG MAN TAUGHT LESSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 270, 14 November 1928, Page 11

YOUNG MAN TAUGHT LESSON.

DRUNK WHILE DRIVING CAR.

PARENTS REFUSE TO BAIL HIM.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

CHRIBTCHURCH, Tuesday.

Alexander Pendrigh, aged 26, who was arrested last Friday for being drunk while driving a car, spent the week-end in gaol, as his parents refused to bail him out, on the grounu that he needed a sharp lesson.

When Pendrigh was charged to-day Sub-Inspector Fitzpatrick said that while on the wrong side of the road Pendrigh collided with a motor cyclist and a pillion rider. The rider of the cycle was still in hospital suffering from cuts, bruises and shock, and the pillion rider had a cut over one eye. Pendrigh was helplessly drunk. A woman in defendant's car was also drunk, while another man who occupied the car decamped when he saw trouble brewing. Defendant was a motor mechanic in the employ of a city firm. Mr. W. F. Tracey, for defendant, said at the showgrounds a man and a woman had asked defendant for a lift. He did not know them but he agreed to drive them. In return they invited him into the hotel. The hospitality proved too much for him.

"This sort of thing has got to be put down," said Mr. Mosley, S.M. He fined Pendrigh £20, cancelled his driver's license and prohibited him from obtaining another until May 31, 1930.