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MAGISTRATE’S VIEW MAN ASLEEP IN CAB K You may be fortunate in that the police do not known whether you drove the car in that condition. All they can say is that they found you asleep in the car,” said Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., to Sydney Charles Humphrey who pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to being found in charge of a motor car while in a state of intoxication. Sergeant Sivyer stated that at about 9-10 p.m. on Friday, Humphtey was found asleep in the front seat of the car, which was standing in Victoria Avenue, near the corner of Guyton Street. H o was awakened and asked if he wa a the driver of the car. He said that the car belonged to someone else and h e had driven it in from Castlecliff for the purpose of painting it. The accused was so drunk that he could have been arrested as an ordinary pedestrian. The Magistrate said that h e would put the best interpretation on the incident and assume that tho accused did not drive the car while in the condition in which he was found by the police.
A fine of £lO was imposed. An application for the suppression of the name was refused, the Magistrate remarking that he never adopted this course in such cases.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 106, 6 May 1929, Page 6
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