WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13090, 2 June 1913, Page 8

WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT.

(Per Press Association.) TIM ARtJ, last night, A man named Eden, the owner of a car plying for hire, was charged with driving on a public road by night without lights. - The ease was dismissed on a piece of delicate evidence. Eden is alleged to have been on the wrong side when ha met a motor bike with lights on a wide road, and' to avoid a collision suddenly turned the car right round, upset; it; and was pinned beneath.

The charge was dismissed on the evidence that he told the cyclist> who came to his aid, to put out the lights for fear the petrol would be fired and h© would be burned with the car (they were then out however), and another witness' observation that the inside of the bottom of the kerosene head light was smoked, as if with burning while upside down.

At Auckland, James Henry Gunson was charged with driving a motor car m Symonds street without adequate lights. Mr E. C. Cutten,. S.M., said that there was a direct conflict of evidence. Two police witnesses had sworn that the car had only one light burning m front, while the defendant had stated equally emphatically that when he reached his journey's end both the froni. 'lights were burning, rlis *W©r**ihip said that the. witnesses on both sides were obviously honest, and that it was for him to . find out who was making an error. He said that he could riot 1 accept 'the theory that the jolting on the rough road had caused -onev light to become so dim as to be temporarily invisible. The defendant was convicted, being, fined 5 3 . and 7s costs.