TIPSY MOTORING LEADS TO PRISON

Grey River Argus, 28 September 1949, Page 7

TIPSY MOTORING LEADS TO PRISON

P.A. CHRITSCHUCH, Sepo. 2” “I wonder that you had the nerve to take my liquor in view of that entry on your card,” said Mr. Rex C. Abernethy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court , when sentencing to three weeks’ imprisonment, Arthur Percy Ford, aged 28, -a carpenter, against whom two charges arising out of a collision in Mancheste rstrect on Saturday night were preferred. •'You might have killed somebody again,” the Magistrate added.

Ford, who pleaded guilty, was charged with being found intoxicated in charge of a car in Madras Street and with, failing to stop after an accident. He was convicted and sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment on the first charge. For failing to stop after the accident he was lined £6. Ford’s licence was cancelled and he was prohibited from obtaining another for two years. When Mr. C. V. Lester, on Ford’s behalf, suggested cancellation of his licence over an extended period to meet the offence, the Magistrate said: “I have decided, in view of Ford’s previous conviction that he will go to gaol. He is a menace.” The Magistrate added that in 1941 Ford was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligent driving causing death.