MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23362, 23 June 1941, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

SATURDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) INTOXICATED DRIVER

Kenneth George Edginton, aged 23, was fined £5 for being intoxicated in charge of a car in Gloucester street at 2.25 a.m. on Saturday, and he will be unable to hold a driver’s licence for six months. Sub-Inspector E. T. C, Turner said that a constable heard cries from a parked car and found Edginton lying on the front seat, vomiting out of the door. He was stupidly drunk, and when taken to the station was certified unfit to drive. Edginton said he was going into camp in three weeks, and had been to a party where there was celebration. He was also ordered to pay costs for driving without a licence. CONVERSION OF BICYCLE Harold Edward Malloch, a soldier, aged 22, was fined £2 for converting a bicycle, owned by Lois Elstone, to his own use. Sub-Inspector Turner said that a constable saw Malloch riding a woman’s bicycle. without a light. Becoming suspicious, because the man was drunk, the constable found that he had taken it in order to catch the last tram. DRUNKENNESS

Hugh Alexander Kennedy, a labourer, aged 63, was fined £2 in default four days' imprisonment for being drunk in a public place, • having been previously convicted in the last six months.