AN OLD MODEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23067, 18 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN OLD MODEL

VICAR ON SPEED CHARGE A vicar's " truculent attitude " and his statement to police patrol men that " the last policeman with whom he had dealings regretted it," were described in the Police Court at Salford, Lancashire. Dr. Robert Kee, Vicar of Moss ley, Common, near Boothstown, was summoned for exceeding the speed limit on Bolton Road. Pendleton, He was fined 20s and his licenco was endorsed. Police Constable Trigg told the Court that, in company with another officer, ho was on patrol duty qn Bolton Road when they observed Dr. Keo's car approaching with one of the side lights extinguished. They turned their car round with the intention of telling him, but as they followed they found his car to be travelling at 35 miles an hour. " We stopped the car, intending to tell the driver to be more careful in a built-up area." said the constable. " Hi 3 attitude, however, was ver3' truculent, and he renlied, ' That's "a lie. I was only doing 20.' " When the police told Dr. Kee thnt he could not have known what his speed was. as his dash-light wns out, he replied by taking their numbers. He told them he would report them, and that the last policeman with whom he had had dealings had regretted it. Dr. Kee told tho magistrates that his car was a 1929 model, had not been decarbonised for six years, and could not do more than 35 "all out." He was annoyed at tho police officers' attitude.