CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19804, 1 June 1926, Page 5

CITY POLICE COURT.

Mondai, Mat 51. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST. The adjourned case in which Spence Joseph Richards was charged with being drunk while in charge of a motor car on on the Main South road was continued.— Mitchell Park said he accompanied Richards. They had no liquor at Green Island. Coming towards Concord on their return journey they went off the road and ran into a fence. They was a heavy fog. Richards, who was perfectly "all right," staved to look after the car. Richards had some drink in the car. Theie were no ladies present. —Senior Sergeant Quartermain: I may be wrong, your Worship, but did not defendant say there were two women in the car? —Mr Neill explained that the mistake had beer, made by counsel. It was only .'air that the matter should be cleared up. There were no ladies in the car. Witness had been taken into town in a private car.—Defendant said he waited after the car had gone off the road for a lorry to tow him out in the morning. He had a bottle and a-hnlf of beer while he was waiting. He had not been to the Shiel Hill hotel before going to Green Island.— Constable Hamilton said that wh n he ar rived at defendant's car the latter was drunk. Defendant had 'said there were two women in the ear.—The Magistrate stated that ho had not the slightest hesitation in saying that the evidence given by defendant and Park was, to nut it very mildly, very inaccurate. There ', how over, no evidence to satisfy him that de fendant was drunk at the time the cur went off the road, though it was quite clear that he was drunk when found by the police. Defendant would be fined 40s, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. NEGLIGENT DRIVING. Alexander Raymond Andrews pleaded guilty to driving negligently a motor-car between Fairfield and Green Island. —Mr W. G Hay, who appeared for defendant, said lie was driving behind another motor car which he had tried to pass on the hill at Concord. He did not notice a third car coming in an opposite direction, and a collision had resnlted —TVfendant was fined 20s. with co=ts (£1 12s 8d). BROKEN BY-LAWS. Earle Johnston and Donald M’Kenzie. for tailing to have their motor-cars properly lighted, were fined 5s and costs (7s) ; John Wilson, who drove a- car late at night without any lights, was fined 20s and costs (7s) John Robins, for failing to have his motor lorry properly lighted, was fined 10s and costs (7s). Arthur Hobbs, on a charge of riding an unlighfed bicycle at night, was fined os and costs (7s). William Inglis was convicted on a charge of .Blowing his chimney to catch fire. DEFENDANT UNPREPARED. Philip Reeder, who was charged with disobedience of a maintenance order, the arrears of which amounted to £l6 IDs, came unprepared to contest the case, and the Magistrate, in granting an adjournment for a week, ordered defendant to brine the necessary information. —Mr Bundle, with some difficulty, extracted from defendant the name of the place where ho ’ worked and his weekly wage. “What are your wages per year?’’ he asked. —Defendant: Oh 1 Ask me something easy. —The Magistrate ordered defendant to annear in a week with the nm”-""'!- information.