TWO MONTHS FOR JOY RIDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 8

TWO MONTHS FOR JOY RIDER.

STEALS CAR FROM RICCARTON. 'This man is lucky, for he might well have had to appear on a much more serious charge ” said Chief-Detec-tive A. Cameron, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning when John Williams. aged thirty-six, appeared to converted to Ids own' ule \ ■ 'motor-car valued at £4OO. the property of James Walsh. He was also charged with being drunk while driving a motor-car. The Ohief-Detective said that the car was driven out to tlie Riccarton Cocks, who had authority to drive if. About three o’clock in the afternoon the accused, who was drunk, went outside. the course, got into the car and speed down Riccarton Road, and as he Montreal Street Bridge and ran up on to the footpath. He righted himself there and drove round Oxford 'Terrace and finally smashed into a standing car outside the Airniri garage. After pulling up he endeavoured to run away. but a man who knew that Walsh's car must have been stolen, detained him until the Police arrived, i Damage to the extent of £2O was done to tho stolen car, and £5 to the standing car. “This might have been much more serious ” he sa.ir! “ for tho man might easily have killed himself and others ax well on a day like yesterday.'* The Justices on t.lie bench said that the offence was a serious one. and they had no intentiou of departing from the latest judgments of Magistrates in these cases. The accused was sentenced to two months imprisonment oq the first • barge and convicted and discharged on the other.