BOY AS MOTORIST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19944, 31 October 1934, Page 14

BOY AS MOTORIST

ENCOUNTER WITH POLICEMAN •For sheer self-confidence and effrontery I have yet to meet his equal.” said Police Sergeant Rushbrooke of Sydney, recently, when referring to an unusual experience which he had had with a 12-year-old boy, who was alleged to have stolen a motor-car. Sergeant Rushbrooke had seen a * baby car driving down a street, with a M small boy crouched low over the wheel. a Later the car was alongside the kerb, 1 and the boy was busily engaged with 1 the mechanism. After some question- > ing of the boy. who said that his father allowed him to drive, the sergeant suggested good naturetily that they both should go along to the police station. The boy demurred. “Now, listen, Mr Policeman.” he is alleged to have pleaded, ‘forget all about it, and I will give you some money on Saturday.” ‘ At the police station it was ascertained that the boy had taken the car’ • from a street, and had driven it fpr some distance. He was charged with having illegally used a motor-car, with having driven without a licence, and having driven a motor vehicle while under the age of 16 years. He was w taken to the children’s shelter. His mother said the boy learned to drive < a car at the age of six.