DANGEROUS DRIVING
♦ FINE IMPOSED AND LICENSE SUSPENDED irm.)3 AI-iSULUTION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, November 23. John Augustus Jeans, a relief wurKtr, was lined £5 by Mr E. Page, S.M., for dangerous driving, and was ordered to pay costs 10s on a charge of not having a driver's license. The magistrate prohibited Jeans from driving lor 12 months. Charges of being drunK and of striking a woman were dismissed. The police stated that accused drove erratically in Taranaki street and knocked down some' verandah poles. After attending to a companion who was very drunk and was cut by glass, the accused drove the car away. He returned in about a quarter of an hour to the scene and pretended to be innocent about the matter. While there he struck a woman, who retaliated by hitting him on the head with a loaf of bread. A woman said that a man punched her between the shoulders, but it was not the accused. Another witness said it was, and the evidence differed also as to the accused's sobriety.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21330, 24 November 1934, Page 22
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