DRUNK IN CHARGE
THREE WEEKS' GAOL
NO LICENCE UNTIL 1940
A sentence of. imprisonment Cor 21 days with hard labour and a suspension of his driving licence until May 31, 1940, was the penalty imposed by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, upon Alfred Samuel Erickson, a painter, aged 57,, who pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of a car in Broadway, Miramar. yesterday.
Sub-Inspector J. Dempsey, who prosecuted, said that the defendant, who was a widower, while driving along Broadway, crashed into the rear of a parked car. He said that he had had about a dozen beers. The accident happened at five minutes past seven ia the evening. At. 8 o'clock a doctor said that the defendant was definitely not in a fit state to drive. For a similar offence, the defendant had been fined £10 and his licence suspended for three months, on July 27, 1036.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 11
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154DRUNK IN CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 11
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