A SPEEDING AMERICAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 11

A SPEEDING AMERICAN.

CHRISTCHURCH, February 2? . If there is one reallv disappointed man in Christchurch to-day it is Alfred C. Moysey, a wool buyer from the United States Mr Moysey has a “kick coming.” He was almost beaten up by a locomotive on Bligh’s read crossing. He had to pay 20s and costs for the experience and he “never cot a thril] out of it.” Describing the occurrence, Mr A. W. Brown, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, said that Moysey’s car went exceedingly close to being smashed as it waj driven over tho crossing at 30 miles an hour. The driver of the locomotive and the fireman considered that the motorists escaped death by inches. All the emergency brakes in the railway engine were clapped on when a collision seemed imminent. “If we had missed by inches, your Honor,” said Moysey, a bespectacled American with a pronounced drawl, “I’d have had a real thrill out of it, but your Honor, I didn’t get the slightest kick and neither did my wife, who was sitting alongside of me.” The Bench (Mr P. L. Davies, J.P., and Mr H. F. Herbert, J.P.) expressed its sympathy with Moysey as a preliminary to fining him Moysey: I don’t ask for pity, your Honor. I ask for justice. Mr DaviesWe are sorry to have to fine you 20s. Defendant clapped on his hat and strode rapidly out of court.