INTOXICATION CHARGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20454, 4 January 1930, Page 12

INTOXICATION CHARGE.

MOTOR-CYCLIST IN COURT

FINE OF TEN POUNDS IMPOSED

After a week's remand on bail, John Franklin Bradley, aged 20, sheet-metal worker, admitted in the Police Court yesterday a charge of being intoxicated while in charge, of a motor-cycle in Mount St. John Avenue, Epsom, on December 26. When the case was first called a week ago it. was adjourned, as a companion who was riding on the pillion of the machine was in hospital as a result of falling off the cycle.

Sub-Inspector McCarthy said accused and a companion had been to Tamaki, and on tho way homo had met a man posing as a Good Samaritan, who had offered them whisky. They had drunk this " neat, " out of a cup, with the result that on the way back to Epsom the pillion rider had fallen off, while accused was too intoxicated to help him, or, in fact, to do anything. Accused was a decent young man. " lie is just as hig a nuisance being on a motor-cycle in that condition as in a car," said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, who imposed a fine of £lO, and ordered accused's driving licence to be cancelled for 12 months.