BOY AS MOTORIST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21940, 25 October 1934, Page 11

BOY AS MOTORIST

DRIVES OFF INI OAF! ENCOUNTER WITH POLICEMAN "For sheer self-confidence and effrontery I have yet to meet ,his equal," said Police Sergeant Rushbrooke of Sydney, recently, when referring to an unusual experiernc which ha had had with a 12-year-old boy, who was alleged to have stolen a motor-car. Sergeant Rushbrooke had seen a baby car driving down a street, with a small boy crouched low over the wheel. Later the car was alongside the herb, and thti boy was busily engaged with the mechanism. After some questioning of tho boy, who said that his father allowed! him to drive, the sergeant suggested good naturedly that they both Bhould go along to the police station. The boy demurred. "Now, listen, Mr. Policeman," *he W alleged to havo pleaded, "forget all about it, and I will give you some money on Saturday." At the police station it was ascertained that the boy had taken the car from a street, and had driven it for some distance. He was charged with, having illegally used a motor-car, with having driven without a licence, and having driven a motor vehicle while under the age of 16 years. Ho was taken to the children's shelter. His mother said the boy learned to drive a car at the age of six.