MOTORMAN DRUNK
FINE OF £2O IMPOSED.
(Per Press Association — Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 6. Th© story of a thrilling ride on a train in charge of a drunken driver was told at 1 North Sydney'Police Court when William Rebecca, aged forty-six. pleaded guilty to having been drunk while driving a tram. 1 Constable Schultz said that the trai: which he boarded Was bound for Wynyard. 1 At tin excessive speed it sped past stopping places although passengers pulled the communication cord, it stopped only at two places, and at both passengers jumped off. It travelled almost: a whole section without a stop. At Milsdus Point the constable ordered Rebecca to get down from the tram, hut he refused. Constable Scliulfc'i then ran to the rear of the car and pulled the trolley, pole off the wire, thus cutting off -the current.
In fining Rebecca £2O, in default forty days’ imprisonment, the magistrate said tliap lie could not imagine anything more dangerous to the travelling public.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1932, Page 3
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