A BAD RECORD
VAIN APPEAL TO MAGISTRATE MAN SENT TO GAOL (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 19. Crippled for life as the result of a crash of a motor car converted to his own use, William Morrison, aged 33, resting on crutches, appeared in the Police Court to-day, sobbing like a child, and pleaded with Mr Wyvern Wilson for another chance. He pleaded guilty to charges of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of the car in Cliff road, St. Heliers. and the unlawful conversion of the car, valued at £175, the property of Northern Automobiles, Ltd. The police said that a salesman left the car outside a tea room. Morrison was seen to enter the car and drive off, and while descending a hill the car crashed into a telegraph pole, Morrison being taken to hospital in a seriously injured condition. The accused had been out of prison only a short while before for an almost 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 of taking cars without authority. If it were 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22964, 20 August 1936, Page 9
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243A BAD RECORD Otago Daily Times, Issue 22964, 20 August 1936, Page 9
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