SPLASHING MOTORISTS
' "Third degree' assault" : This was how Judge Franklin Taylor, in Court, at Brooklyn, N.Y.,- described the actions of motor-car drivers,= who splash pedestrians' clothes in.-Wet Weather. Judge Taylor was hearing a case in which a man was charged with taking the law into his own hands and -attacking .an offending motorist with a penknife. After the defendant had produced in court, the pair of trousers which," he said, had been damaged when the car passed, the Judge allowed :him to go :free on suspended sentence.. ■■■■■■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 11
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87SPLASHING MOTORISTS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 69, 18 September 1936, Page 11
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