NOVEL DRINK CHARGE
Under the influence of drink while in charge of an invalid chair” was the charge preferred at Woking recently against Harold Fagente, temporarily living at Merrow, near Guildford, whose home is at Portsmouth. He entered the box with the aid of crutches. Fagente’s defence was that he was in pain and took some drink to deaden it. As he was driving his chair along with the aid of his petrol engine the front wheel touched a stone and knocked his hand off the control, with the result that the chair overturned. A petrol engine was a necessity to him owing to the hilly nature of the country near Portsmouth. The magistrates fined him £5. They agreed that there were special reasons why he should not be disqualified from holding a license.
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Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 7
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134NOVEL DRINK CHARGE Evening Star, Issue 22445, 16 September 1936, Page 7
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