A FORGOTTEN IDEA
CAR-BORROWER SENT TO GAOL
An attempt by James 'William Broileriek, aged 35, to explain away his action of getting into a strange motor-car as be-' ing. the result of having too much to drink was not very successful iutbfe Magistrate's Court'to-day, for, remarking that Broderick had been in trouble before, .Mr. E. Page, S.M., sent him to prison for three mouths on a charge of unlawfully converting a motor-car to his own use. A lady witness gave evidence that she saw Broderick try the door of several shops in Farish street,, and then the doors of several motor-ears standing there. One car drove up and after the occupant had got out the accused got into the car and sat behind the wheel. . Witness then called a constable. ; Constable Eae said that when he asked the.accused why he was in the car he replied that he thought he would go for a "I had a good deal to drink that day, and I don't remember'trying the doors or the shops," Broderick said in reply to the Magistrate. "I don't know why I sot into the car at all, as I-cau't drive. Whether it was some sort of drunken idea of getting in and pretending that I owned it J don't know." ■' -
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 10
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213A FORGOTTEN IDEA Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 23 May 1930, Page 10
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