IRASCIBLE COLONEL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 547, 27 December 1928, Page 12

IRASCIBLE COLONEL

LOST TEMPER COSTS £3O Central figure in an unfortunate scene in Fall Mall, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Malcolm Jerome Alvis, 46, of tlie United Service Club, was charged at Marlborough Street, London, with being drunk in charge of a motor-car and driving it dangerously in St. James’s Street. Mr. Herbert Muskett, prosecuting, intimated that it was not proposed to proceed with the charge of being drunk in charge of the car. A taxicab was standing outside the Conservative Club, and a Captain Nutting was about to take his seat in it when there was a violent jar from the rear, and he was thrown forward. The car driven by Colonel Alvis had run into the rear of the cab.

Colonel Alvis then stopped, but later restarted the car, and the foot of one of the two policemen dealing with the matter was run over, but without injury. The car having come to rest, a policeman asked Colonel Alvis to alight. “He declined to do so,” proceeded Mr. Muskett, “and it is clear that he was more or less forcibly removed.”

Dr. Thomas Rose, the police sur* geon, came to the conclusion that Colonel Alvis was in a drunken state, and defendant was extremely rude and personal to the doctor. Colonel Alvis had asked a woman with him to call Dr. J. S. Risien Russell, of Wimpole Street, to see him at the police station, and Dr. Russell saw the colonel within a few moments of the examination by Dr. Rose.

Dr. Risien Russell reported that defendant was a patient who had been under his care suffering from neurasthenia, and under treatment in a home. He was in a state which might well be the result of his having taken some alcohol, but was not in any seuse drunk. , Mr j ?f alter FTampton, defending, urged that when the taxi-cab did not move along, Colonel Alvis simply tried to push it in such a way that there ! ,as n ° damage. He was absolutelv lost hli ) temper, and desired to express genuine regret to thpolicemen.

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