TWO WEEKS' GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 61, 13 March 1937, Page 11

TWO WEEKS' GAOL

DRUNK IN CHARGE

INCIDENT IN BROUGHAM

STREET

A; sentence of fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour and cancellation of his driver's licence for twelve months, was imposed by Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today upon Victor Stanley Lavin, a labourer, who pleaded guilty to being intoxicated in charge of «■ car at 9 o'clock last night in Brougham Street. Mr. Stilwell observed that he could see no extenuating features .whatever in the case.

r Sub-Inspector J. Dempsey, who prosecuted, said that a Mr. Clapcott had parked his car. last night in Brougham Street, outside of his home. Some distance to the rear of his car another motor was parked. Lavin, who was ! driving his car along Brougham Street in the direction of Pirie Street, crashed into fhe rear of Mr. Clapcott's car. Hearing the crash," Mr. Clapcott came out, just in time to see Lavin in reverse gear,.run into the car behind his own, and push that car into still, another car parked behind it. The defendant then drove into Pirie Street, where the front of his car mounted the kerb and crashed into a concrete wall about eight feet from the corner. As a result of that crash, the car could not be driven away. When Constable Hawke arrived, the defendant was standing beside his car, and was in a state of intoxication.' A certificate to this effect was given by a doctor when Lavin was taken to ; the police station.