CHARGES DISMISSED
Witnesses Vague in Their Evidence A duel between counsel, Sir. J. Scott and a witness enlivened proceedings in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday during a case in which John Ward, a baker, was charged with dangerous driving and with being in charge of a motor-lorry in Parish Street while in a state of intoxication. It was alleged by the police that on the night of October 17, while defendant was driving his lorry over the intersection of Manners Street and Parish Street he knocked down a man named Charles Fraser, of Greymouth,pulled up, apologised and offered to wait for a constable. However, he did not wait, but drove away. The police alleged that when Ward got out of the lorry it was still in motion and another man rushed over and applied the handbrake. Witnesses would say that Ward was not in a fit condition to drive. After evidence for the prosecution had been heard, both charges were dismissed, the magistrate remarking that the police were perhaps a little unfortunate that their two main witnesses were so vague in their evidence.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 34, 3 November 1934, Page 22
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183CHARGES DISMISSED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 34, 3 November 1934, Page 22
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