"NOT GUILTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 8

"NOT GUILTY.

MOTOR DRIVER ACQUITTED. IXJL'IIY '10 A WOMAX. After a )i'tiroim>iit nf ..twii/lioun-, a inrv Jip 'tlic (Supreme .Court, yesterday i in' il i 'nl or (;iiiitv.-:on :: - an,;cqinitfi;;...against;;/Jqhii ■Irvine Crawford, traveller. *■ tie «a? charged .with causing./-bodily injury;' while li: a state of intoxication.,in 'charge' of-;;a ? motor car;': causin£;;l)'odi!y : in HUT liy negligently- driving' -i motor cur, iiiul'fuilinu: to stop !i'ft('r''an accident; "'■ The ease before /Jli"- :: Ju.sticß , ]< , aii\\v:' , ";-'V''-' , ' i , j;v V^.fS'^-.'i'J^^i'V''. Mr, A'. H. "Meredith , conducted' the case for tile Crown, and Mr. J. ; Hogberi appeared".for: accused, ■, who* pleaded ■~-.n'6t guilty. ' ..■'.Miy.fTogb'en said, that,;Crawford ; ; wiia driving ■■up Pavnell Hiso' when ho felt the ;car bump, hut ho thought? it;.was due to sonic ' irregularity ;.in thb;tram\ track. .'He and a man .with Jliim. in : the eiir. thought little of it -until; tho'.'ca.'r'; went some; dtataneo.. dthvir ; : ; (lie : road: TJioy remembered having seen a .woman crossing the road. ■/■.They''.- decided'; to; return, mid turned in a side road.- At; tlie. linii) of the accident lie,-wus'ilriving. at about So miles nn hour. .'" ' V' I -\ccused, in exiilenie. said that he had ; been driving eleven years, and had done 130,000 mill's Ho pulled shtirply to' the right when ho saw the .woman, and thought he had given her plenty of .room to cross the road. He thought that the hump 'WfVS due !to t}A& train i track, and so carried o&. ,' < ;