THREE WEEKS' GAOL
FOE DRUNKEN MOTOEIST.
"In December last the defendant was convicted and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment at Auckland for a similar offence, and his license was cancelled," said Senior-Sergeant Lander at the Maigatrate's Court today, when Alfred Charles Welsman (33) pleaded guilty to a charge of being in charge of a motor-car while in a state of intoxication. He also pleaded guilty to a charge of converting to his own use a motor-car, valued at £200, the property of Theo Walters. Welsman, continued the SeniorSergeant, was employed as a garage hand by Walters, but had no .authority to use his employer's cars. Last evening, he was seen by aomo neighbours of- Walters to bring the car out of the garage and to be having some difficulty with it, as he was in a drunken condition. They tried to atop him, but he drove away at a clangorous speed, narrowly missing a collision with a bus and hitting th 3 korbing in Vivian stret. Eventually, lie whs arrested by a policeman in Garrctt street, where lie had left the var. No damage hud lien done to the machine.
A term of twenty-one day's inipris-
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 8
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196THREE WEEKS' GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1926, Page 8
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