SEVERE PENALTIES
(To the Editor.) Sir, —In view of the great amount of talk with little action on the prevention of road fatalities, timely significance attaches to the following British United Press message from Chicago, which appeared recently in the London "Observer." ' "Judge Gorman, of Chicago, deals speedily in his court with reckless motorists. In three weeks he has already reduced the death rate from dangerous driving by 50 per cent. "In the same period he has sent seventy-one drivers to gaol for being Under the influence of drink, or guilty of reckless driving. In another six months, he says, there won't be any problem at all. "All day long defendants pass through the crowded court room. To those found guilty he had only one answer: 'Ten days in the county gaol.' " —I am, etc., • ' A'R.M.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 8
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136SEVERE PENALTIES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 21, 24 July 1936, Page 8
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