CHARGE DISMISSED
LORRY DRIVER BEFORE COURT (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 19. Evidence brought by Robert Charles Burns, aged 25 years, a lorry driver and a butcher, to show he was dazed with shock because of an accident to the car he was driving, was accepted by Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today when Burns was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a car on the JohnsonvillePorirua road on April 10. The charge was dismissed. According to the evidence for the defence the car had to swerve to avoid an oncoming car with bright lights, and it ran into a ditch and hit a post, Burns being shocked and slightly injured. Accused himself sent for the police and a doctor. He had had three drinks during the afternoon and nothing since.
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Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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136CHARGE DISMISSED Southland Times, Issue 23178, 20 April 1937, Page 6
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