ROAD DEATHS.
"WICKED, RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER." MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, December 28. "Wicked slaughter on the roads" wai a phrase used by Mr. Dummett, ths Bow Street. London, magistrate when remanding in custory for a week a motorist charged with driving under the influence of drink in Whitehall. "Everybody's attention has been drawn," Mr. Dummett said, "to the ghastly state of things which the courts.. of this country have to deal with every day. People are being slaughtered and maimed in battalions. The courts are faced with a terrible situation, unlike anything that has happened before, or ever conceived —wicked, criminal, negligent slaughter, and maiming of hundreds of thousands of human beings. "However sympathetic a magistrate may feel towards a prisoner, that sort of thing must be put deliberately aside and his public duty considered. The only way in which reckless motorists can be taught that their whole attitude towards this problem must be radically altered is by the sort of punishment that the courts mete out to people foun# - ——' .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 11
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