INTOXICATED DRIVER SENT TO GAOL
♦ CAR WHICH DAMAGED A WASHHOUSE
(PRESS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) PALMERSTON N„ December 13. Lewis Eric Colville, aged 23, was sentenced to 10 days’ imprisonment by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., for being intoxicated in charge of a car and his licence was cancelled till May. 1940. Inspector Cummings said the accused’s car mounted a footpath at 11.45 p.m. and travelled a distance of 40 feet, going through a strong fence and across a garden into a washhouse. It demolished one side of the washhouse and knocked the copper from the brickwork. The impact occurred four feet from a sleeping man, who received a gl-eat fright. The Magistrate commented that he did not usually impose gaol for a first offence, but this case was different. The car’s course showed the extent of the accused’s intoxication.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22584, 14 December 1938, Page 21
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