GAOL FOR THREE WEEKS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19375, 13 July 1937, Page 13

GAOL FOR THREE WEEKS

INTOXICATED MOTORIST CYCLIST KNOCKED DOWN REFUSAL TO GIVE NAME (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ this day. A sentence of gaol for 21 days with hard abour and disqualification from driving for two years was imposed on Harold Lionel Voss, a panel beater aged 21, now of Wellington, by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., on a charge of intoxication while in charge of a car.

The case was a sequel to an accident in which a young woman cyclist was knocked down.

She gave evidence that the accused could hardly walk straight or keep his balance. When asked for his name he said he did not have one, but went by a number. The magistrate, after further evidence, said that the case was different from ordinary ones in which a man was found sleeping off the offence of intoxication or arrested before driving a var. "I have offered repeated warnings that if these cases continue I will inflict imprisonment,” he continued. “That is what I am going to do here. Not only did the accused drive while in a state of semi-intoxi-cation, but he did not assist the case by first denying to the detectives that he had been driving and denying knowledge of the accident and refusing to give his name.”