DRUNKEN DRIVER
THE FATHER GAOLED (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, September 10. A message from Grand Rapids says : Faced with an extraordinary number, of drunken driver accidents, a judge, here sentenced a 44-year-old father to; one month’s imprisonment and fined him one hundred dollars, because hoi gave his seventeen-year-old son some; beer, and then permitted him to drive an automobile. A policeman arrested; the father and son when their car; careered across a footpath at four o’clock in the morning. The father, admitted that he and his son had finished six bottles of beer between them.
The Judge suspended sentence on the son on the latter’s promise to adjure liquor forever. He said that any father who takes his , bov for a good, time and then lets him drive while intoxicated, should pay. the penalty.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1937, Page 6
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