GENTLE TREATMENT FOR CENTENARIAN
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) CHICAGO, May 27 A motorist who said he is 105 years old, the father of 65 children and living with his 12th wife, won dismissal on a traffic charge today because it was his first known offence in 50 years of driving. The grey-bearded motorist, Joseph Ben Abraham, of Gary, Indiana, appeared in court today wearing sandals and a dark suit. Abraham, who said his oldest child is aged 86 and his youngest aged
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two, produced a birth certificate, written in Hebrew, which he said proved he was born in Palestine on September 3, 1858. “They got me for making an illegal turn,” he said. A reporter asked him how many grandchildren he has. “How do you count the stars?” he replied. The magistrate dismissed the charge because of Abraham’s “spotless traffic record since he started driving in 1914.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30453, 29 May 1964, Page 11
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