CRIPPLED MAN IN COURT

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21866, 20 August 1936, Page 17

CRIPPLED MAN IN COURT

SERIOUSLY INJURED IN STOLEN CAR (I*B*BB 4.BSOCIA*tO» MSLMKAH.) AUCKLAND. August 19. Crippled, for life as a result of a crash in a , converted motor-car on April 7, while intoxicated, William Morrison, aged 38, rested on crutches in the Magistrate’s Court to-day sobbing like a child, as he pleaded with Mr Wyvern Wilson. S.M., for another chance. Morrison pleaded guilty to charges of being in a state of intoxication. while in charge of a car at CUfl road. St Heliers, and the unlawful conversion, of a car valued at £175. the property of Northern' Automobiles, Ltd. The police, said thht a salesman left the car outside a tea-room. Morrison was seen to enter the car and drive It off.'awhile' descending. ,• hill, the car crashed into a telegraph pole. Morrison was admitted to hospital ; seriously injured. The accused was but of prison only a short while before for an almost similar offence. "You ask me to give you a chance,” said the magistrate. 'T would consider it a gross breach, of the probation laws to admit you to probation. Seldom does one meet with such a long record of vagrancy and taking cars without authority. If It was not for your serious condition, I would put you away for a long stretch.” Morrison , was sentenced to three months* imprisonment on the intcntication charge and convicted and discharged or the cwversum charge.