CRIPPLED IN CRASH
MAN IN CONVERTED CAR CHARGE OE INTOXICATION CENSURE BY .MAGISTRATE (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Crippled for life as the result of the crash of a converted motor ear on April 7 tv bile intoxicated, William Morrison, aged 33 years, rested on crutches when charged in the Police Court to-day. Sobbing lilco a. child, he pleaded with Mr. Wyvorn Wilson, S.M., for another chance.
He pleaded guilty to charges of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car on Cliff road, St. Heliors, and the unlawful conversion of a ear valued at £173, the property of Northern Automobiles, Limited.
The police said that a salesman left the ear outside a. tea room. Morrison was seen to enter the car and drive off. While descending a hill, the ear ■crashed into a telegraph pole and Morrison was sent to hospital seriously injured. The accused had been out of prison only a short while after serving a term for an almost similar offence.
“ You ash me to give you a chance,” said the magistrate. “1 would consider it a gross breach of me probation laws to admit you to probation. "Rarely does one meet with such a long record of vagrancy and the taking’ of cars without authority. If it was not for your serious condition, I would put you away for a long Stretch. ’ ’
Morrison was sentenced to gaol for three .months on the intoxication charge, and was convicted and discharged on the conversion charge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19098, 20 August 1936, Page 15
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