INTOXICATED IN CHARGE

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 10

INTOXICATED IN CHARGE

WEEK-END LAPSES TWO YOUKG MEN FINED In the Police Court this morning two young men were separately charged with having been intoxicated while in charge of motor cars. Each was fined £2O and prohibited from driving for a period of 12 months. A barman, Frederick Watterston, married, pleaded guilty, and was represented by Mr M. Hanan. Sergeant Johnson stated Watterston was seen by a traffic inspector on Saturday evening driving from Cumberland street into Frederick street. When apprehended and examined by Dr Harty he was certified as unfit to drive a car. Mr Hanan told the court that Watterston had borrowed the car from a friend, and was in the act of returning it to the garage when apprehended. “ There is little that can be said in extenuation of such cases,” said Mr Bartholomew, when imposing a fine of £2fl. with medical expenses, 21s. The second case was that against George Theodore Nigel Hunt, for whom Mr J. G. Warrington appeared. Sergeant Johnsen said that at 1.40 a.m. yesterday the defendant was observed by the occupants of a police car in Anderson’s Bav road to be driving in a very erratic manner. He was brought to the station and found to be in a very drunken condition. Defendant was a single man, aged 21 years, and a farm labourer. In the car. said the Sergeant, were two empty bottles and one half full of beer. .Mr Warrington said that defendant had been to a party, where a considerable quantity of beer had been drunk, and had made the mista l ™ of drinking sherry on ton of beer. He had never been in trouble before, and had been in the cells since Saturday nieht. The Magistrate remarked that the medical renort showed that the defendant had been quite drunk, and so a danger to the public. He would he fined £2O, with medical exnenses (21s).