"DESERVED A MEDAL"
BUT GOT A PINE MOTORIST'S NOVEL PLEA LONDON, Aug. 24., Wearing Highland dress, Albeit E. Pickard, a Glasgow cinema proprietor, appeared at Highgat'c yesterday ona summons for failing 16 conform With a traffic signal .at East End road, East Fihehley. . Sir l.ulham Pound, the magistrate, tdld kiln hfe wa* liable to a fine, of £2O, but fined him only 303. Pickard replied, '' Thanks very much. I was prepared to pay £2OO, but I wanted justice." Pickard stated that by the way ho drove he prevented a man from being knocked down. He added, "Instead of being brought here I should have been asked to attend St. .Tames' Palace to be presented with a gold modal for saving the other man's life."
Asked whether he could bring any witness, Pickard answered, I asked a man who was on the crossing, but he said he would not come because he attended the same synagogue as llore-Belisha."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 15
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