DRUNKEN DRIVER

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 4

DRUNKEN DRIVER

"COMMITTED PERJURY."

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 25.

“I am satisfied that defendant was the driver of the car, and also that he was under the influence of liquor. He has aggravated his offence by committing perjury.” . ? After saying this at the Pplice Court, Mr. W. R. M’Kean, S.M., fitted Raymond Emanuel, a sharebroker! aged 33, £5O for being intoxicated while in charge of \a motor-car. ■ l?ls license was also cancelled for twelve months. Defendant was arrested in. Customs Street about midnight on November 9. The police evidence was that the car, carrying a hilarious party, went in pursuit of a eat, and zig-zagged over the road.

The defendant, who was represeiit ed by Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, paid that, although he was in charge of the car, he had not driven it. „ • The passengers in the car also gave similar evidence.

In rejecting an application for ah adjournment to enable Mr. Dickson to put forward legal argument, Mr. M’Kean said that no legal/ issue was involved.

He went on to say that, if he believed the defendant, he would have to disbelieve two policemen and two sergeants, who had not said in evidence-in-chiei! all that might have been said against Emanuel. Mr, Elworth, who appeared pn Mr. Dickson’s behalf, asked that Emanuel should have time to pay his fine.

Mr. M’Kean: I see no reason fbr granting time in view of the evidence that has been given. The default is two months’ imprisonment. Security for appeal was fixed at £2O. LICENSE 'SUSPENDED. WHANGAREI, November 25. John Ewan M’Lean, 21, a farmhand at Waipu, was fined £lO and his license was suspended for six months on a charge of being intoxicated when driving his employer’s motor-car. Defendant was returning from the show when he ran into a cyclist. ;

Counsel said that but for defendant accepting an invitation to have a beer when passing through Whangarei oh his way home, he would have been quite capable of driving the car.

WELLINGTON CASE

WELLINGTON, Nov. 28

Charles Edward Bell, 49, baker, was fined £2O by Mr. Salmon S.M., for being intoxicated while driving a motor-car in default three months’ imprisonment. His license was suspended till March 31, 1929.

A DOCTOR ACCUSED.

WELLINGTON, November 28.

A motor car, driven by Doctor. Joseph Patrick Hennessy, 47, collided with a tramcar outside the Basiii Reserve at nine-thirty on Saturday night. Both the tram arid the motor car were badly damaged, but no one was injured. Hennessy was later arrested on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a car, and appears at the Court this afternoon. . ■