SPEEDING BY LORRIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 24

SPEEDING BY LORRIES

MAGISTRATE'S WARNING

;; An intimation thai speeding by faeavy motor vehicles would be dealt •with severely in future was given by '*$&v. A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the fetone Court yesterday, during the Shearing of traffic cases.

,; For failing to give way to traffic approaching on the right, Christine was fined 10s and DonSaid Harry Pettett £1. Pettett was also jfined £1 for haying no driver's licence.

, William Terriss was fined 15s for .failing to carry a warrant of fitness ton .a ..car and 15s for not having the Tear' ■pumber-plate illuminated. . • A fine of 10s was imposed upon -Clifford Percy Gandy for failing to Carry a warrant of fitness.

For exceeding the speed limit in the jborough Ronald Hector Kendwall was jfined £2, Robert Young 30s, and Llewellyn Urry 30s, and lan Forsyth £1.

'■: Walter George Bishop was fined £1 jfor driving .without due care and at:,tontiph and; was convicted and ordered !%.;R|[^.'.costs for. driving without a

ABORTION CHARGES

WOMAN REMANDED

Marjorie Pickering, aged 42, was found guilty in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon on two charges of unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, and was remanded for sentence. The jury retired at 12.45 p.m., and returned at 5.50 p.m., being absent five hours and five minutes. Their verdict was "guilty, with a very strong recommendation to mercy on the grounds that those who procured tlie commission of the offences are equally guilty with the accused.".. His Honour (Mr. Justice Quilliam) told the jury that their recommendation' ■would be given effect to. : Mr. F. W. Ongley, who appeared for the accused, asked his Honour to reserve for the Court of Appeal a question arising out of his Honour's summing up. The question was whether the jury had been sufficiently directed as to the nature of the corroboration required. His Honour suggested that the matter might haye been raised at an earlier stage. It was rather late now. He would have been' happy in the. interests of justice to have given the jury any direction. Mr. Ongley said that he was bound to mention the matter during the trial or immediately afterwards. His Honour said that he would take the matter as having been mentioned and adjourned. ,