DANGEROUS DRIVING

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 5

DANGEROUS DRIVING

CONVICTION OF RELIEF WORKER. ERRATIC CAREER DOWN STREET. By Telegraph—PresS Association. Wellington, Nov. 23. John Augustus Jeans, a relief worker, was fined £5 by Mr. E. Page, S.M., for dangerous driving and was ordered to pay costs 10s. On a charge of not having a driver’s license Jeans was prohibited from driving for 12 months. Charges of being drunk and of striking a woman were dismissed. The police stated Jeans drove erratically in Taranaki Street and knocked down some verandah poles. After attending to a companion, who was very drunk and was cut by glass, Jeans drove the car away. He relumed about a quarter of an hour later to the scene and. pretended to be innocent about the matter. While there he struck a woman, who retaliated by hitting him on the head with a loaf of bread. The woman said a man punched her between the shoulders but it was not Jeans. Another witness said it was and the evidence differed also with regard to Jeans’ sobriety. _