DANGEROUS DRIVING.
PENALTY IMPOSED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 23. John Augustus Jeans, a relief worker, was to-day fined £5 by Mr E. Page, S.M., for dangerous driving, and was ordered to pay costs, 10s, on a charge of having no driver’s license. The Magistrate prohibited Jeans from driving for 12 months. Charges of being drunk and of striking a woman were dismissed.
The police stated that accused drove erratically in Taranaki Street and knocked clown some verandah poles. After attending to a companion, who was very drunk and was cut by glass, accused drove the car away. He returned in about a quarter of an hour to the scene and pretended to be innocent about the matter. While there he allegedly struck a woman, who retaliated by hitting him on the head with a loaf of bread. The woman said a man punched her between the shoulders, but it was not accused. Another witness said it was, and the evidence differed also in regard to accused’s sobriety.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 307, 24 November 1934, Page 12
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