SEQUEL TO COLLISION.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 9. “I think it is pretty obvious these two men were engaged in a round of visits of various hotels,” said Mr W. E. Stilwell, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court, to-day, when passing sentence on Alfred James Shewan. a bus driver, aged 32, and James Sherwood Manchester, a motor-driver and farmer, aged 38, who .were arrested after a collision between a motor-bus and a tram at Karori on Monday evening. The men were charged jointly with unlawful conversion of the bus and with being intoxicated in charge of it. In addition Manchester was charged with negligent driving. Shewan pleaded guilty to intoxication, but the other charges he denied. Manchester was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for unlawful conversion and convicted for negligent driving and his license was cancelled for twelve months. The intoxication charge against him was dismissed. Shewan was convicted and sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for unlawful conversion and to seven days’ gaol for being intoxicated in charge, flic terms to be concurrent. His license was cancelled for twelve months.
A tram motorola n said the collision was head-on The two men were ».l the wheel of the' bus and one seemed to fall over.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 137, 10 May 1940, Page 8
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