SHOP WINDOW CRASHED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 14

SHOP WINDOW CRASHED

"BORROWED" CAR EPISODE INTOXICATED MAN GAOLED (Par Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. While driving a motor car which he had converted to his own use. James Edward Bracewell, aged 36, crashed through a shop window in Remuera road at 9.30 on Saturday night. He pleaded guilty in the Police Court this morning to three charges, namely, intoxication in charge of a car, driving without a license and unlawful conversion of a car valued at £4O. The police said that a constable heard the noise of skidding tyres in Broadway, Newmarket, and saw a car mount the footpath and crash into the front window of a confectionery shop. Bracewell was intoxicated. He had removed the car from a street in Newmarket shortly before. He had produced an old license. He had not been in trouble since 1919, when he was admitted to probation on a theft charge. "I was very drunk and I did not remember taking the car. I had been drinking since 9 o'clock in the morning," said Bracewell to the magistrate. Mr. C. R. Orr Walker: You might easily have killed .someone. The accused was convicted and discharged for driving without a license, and was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment on each of the other charges, the terms to bo concurrent. Accused's license was cancelled for three years