DRINKING BOUT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 14

DRINKING BOUT.

TERMINATED IN ACCIDENT. FATHER OF TEN CONVICTED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. A story of a drinking boufc which terminated in a motor accident was told in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Alexander James Parsell was charged with intoxication while in charge of a motor truck on the Ohaupo Road on May 2 last. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said the accused was a painter and paperhanger, of Matamata, with 10 children, six of whom were under 16. He came to Hamilton to paint a house, but indulged in a drinking bout, later driving a motor truck over a ba'nk near the Waikato Hospital. ' , Counsel said tho accused and his family were in poor circumstances. Accused admitted his unfitness to drive a car, but claimed that the accident was due to his being, dazed by striking his head on the windshield. The magistrate said the facts disclosed a disgraceful state of affairs. He convicted" the accused, and postponed sentence to enable further inquiries to be made concerning him.