POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 1

POLICE COURT

MONDAY, APRIL 12. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) INTOXICATED MOTORIST. Frank Rutherford Walker (Mr E. J. Anderson) pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of ai motor car. - - . Senior-sergeant Packer said that at! 10.10 p.m. on April ,4 the defendant wa» found in a motor car in Dowling street. The constable noticed t' ). he was tha ( worse for liquor, but was told to mind his own business. Defendant wai taken to the Police Station, where ha, was examined and a certificate showing that he was not fit to drive was .given. Air Anderson said that defendant had not been in any previous trouble.. There was one unusual feature of thin case. The defendant had an accident* while playing tennis the previous, day,: when he fell through a wire-netting fence and on to another _ court 6ft below. He received injuries to hia temple and chest. On the day he was taken to the station he went to Smaill’a Beach, and perhaps foolishly sat in the sun. He spent the evening with; frieuds and drank a glass of stout and two glasses of ale. When he went trf his car in Dowling street he tried to start the engine. There was a.young lady with him, and she would haver driven if defendant had started the, car; therefore it was not the case of an intoxicated man driving a car. Some two hours after he had been ex. amined by the police doctor he was re. examined by another ■ doctor, who ’ re. ported that Walker was then fit to drive. Air Anderson suggested that! the man’s condition was aggravated by the injuries he had received the day before. Remarking that it may have been fortunate a constable came on. th© scene, the Magistrate fined Walker £lO and medical expenses (£ 1 Is). and suspended his license for six months. AIAINTENANCE. Albert Edward Smithers, who wai charged with default of a maintenance order, was sentenced to one month’# imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as defendant paid £1 s week until the arrears of £l6 17s 6d were cleared. Similarly charged, James Edward Clark was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended so long as he paid £lO on or before April 26 and £ll 5s on or befor* Alay 26.