MRS CHAPMAN FINED

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1930, Page 6

MRS CHAPMAN FINED

FOR DANGEROUS MOTORING

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LONDON, Feb. 8. \

Several cricketers appeared at the Manuorough Police Court when Mrs Cnapnnin, tlie wife otf .the English rest cricket team captain, and the sister of Lowry, the New Zealand cricketer, was summoned for dangerous driving. .

Mr M. C. Lyon, the Somerset batsman, defended the accused. A policeman gave evidence that the defendant drove down Laugham Place at a speed of 15 to 20; per hour.; lie did not slacken her speed, and7she collided with a car at a crossing. AY hen told that she would be summoned .she said: “ I.suppose it will be a liver.* 1 am a stranger to London, and lam not usedto driving Here.” . .

Cross-examined, the policeman would not admit that Airs Chapman’s speed was only eight miles per hour. The defendant, giving evidence, said that she was driving her husband and a friend. She did hot see the policeman, owing to a monument. She then jammed on the brakes immediately.

The Magistrate suggested that she ought to have gone slower. The defendant replied: “If 1 had gone quicker, I would have got through.”

Chapman, giving evidence for the defence, estimated the speed at ten miles per hour. He narrated that when he told the policeman his name, he a;j:ed “A.P.F. ? ” AVitness replied to him in the affirmative.

The policeman then said: “That makes the case worse. You ought to plead the monument as an excuse. It has caused a lot of trouble.” AVitness added that he had since visited the spot, and it was impossible to see a policeman there at night time, owing to the monument. The Magistrate expressed the opinion that the presence of the monument only necessitated greater caution find fined the defendant £7 with sixty shillings costs. , Her license was also suspended for six weeks.