GAOL FOR CRIPPLE
CRASHED CONVERTED CAR WHILE DRUNK [Special J to “Northern Advocate.”l AUCKLAND, This Day. Crippled for life as the result of a crash in a converted car on April 7 while intoxicated, William Morrison, aged 33, who rested on crutches, appeared in the Police Court this morning and, sobbing like a child, pleaded with Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., for another chance. He nleaded guilty to charges of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car, in Cliff Road, St. Heliers, and to the unlawful conversion of a car, valued at £175, the property of Northern Automobiles Ltd. The police said a salesman left the car outside a tearoom and Morrison was seen to enter the vehicle and drive off. While descending the hill, the car crashed into a telegraph pole, and Morrison was taken to the hospital seriously injured. Accused was out of prison only a short while before for a similar offence. .... “You ask me to give you a chance,” said the magistrate. “I would consider it a gross breach of the probation laws to admit you to probation. Rarely does one meet with such a long record of vagrancy and taking cars without authority. If it was not for your serious condition, I would put you away for a long stretch.”
Morrison was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on the intoxication charge, and convicted and discharged on the conversion charge.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1936, Page 7
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238GAOL FOR CRIPPLE Northern Advocate, 19 August 1936, Page 7
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