Intoxicated' Driver Fined.

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 4

Intoxicated ' Driver Fined.

(l?rbmv^ N^Z^. Triitii'^^ Special; Wellington Representative). XFTER a^ "cleah; i record -for. oyer 16 years, Charles Stanley Glark, a v^ tfaveller,' imbibed tbb. much.liquor, and was found.slumped over the driving wheel of ;his stationary motor-car m .a drunken sleep. ... ClarkVwhenrbusedybyAa. policeman, ma.de anyattempt .to start the car, but his efforts were foiled and he was taken to the police station. ' AccbrdihgAtoAMr. W; ; F/.Leicester, who appeared for Clafk when he came beforeV Mr. T. ; B". McNeill,. S.M., m, the Well ingtoh Police Court Are'cently, the. offence 'was m the second degree.'. ... ;, ( A Clark,: hey said, was not driving the nibtor- car, and it was parked m the gutter.:but.Wf' the way of traffic. • • The- Magistrate -said be would take into account the -fact I .. that Clark ' was not driyrng^his car at the. time, and he would be ; fine.d £20, but the - licensevwould not be. suspended. A

after the termination' of the war that he returned to find his wife*, and then there was no, trace of her. m the country., A; '-■• ' '■■-■'■;•■'■■■ ' •A'-" ; v ; A ; ; . y; ' Prom thaHday her .arrest, he said, he^hadt not' discovered -her. . "WhenA I , manned -her A I,'ywas a widower," was' • Meredith's ■ story. •■ He had first married, m 1899. , * "I' was twenty years old when 1 married my first wife, just prior to the outbreak of the Boer War. , ;;ryromiiined m South yAfricaifor a year after, the war.ya'nd on my re- . turn to England;, I. could not find any trace of my first wife."- "y | About seven years after .thei termination of the Boer War, he learned- that his v.'wifeA 'was dead. A'- . i When he .married the J woman Horrocks, she had led hini tp. believe that she was a, . widow. He . was 'a tailpr at the time and she had come to him as -a tailoress. ■ , ".A 'He had not seen his second wife from the time he had; left her on ; the wharf when he sailed away to the late war, he declared under cross-exami-nation. A ; AEvidertce as.'to the woman's subsequent marriage fto Earl was given' by Madeline Ann Heffern, who was a witness at the ceremony m an Auckland registry office.. The woman . had never mentioned to her that she had been married: previously, said Heffern, and she had made no mention of haying; a daughter m England. ;.\ , ' , "When I was married to -Earl I described myself as a widow as from January 25, 1902,^ the aocused told the court. ■' Before her. first marriage, 'she had taken her mother's maiden name of

' Christchurch, but she ; : had v hbty agreed, with \ Mrs.' Meredith. ■•'.•■- A A ; "Meredith and his mothei', expected me ;i to ■•■ do practically' ally the • work- 'm the .boarding-house. , He/ did:; not, work and expected me-, to keep. him. ' I refused to do this, : and went out : to earn my own living." -, Y'Y- - She' declared that she had not lived with any other man m New Zealand, but admitted; that she was identical with . the Minnie Earl who was before the court at * f One'hunga m 192.4 •■•■■ tor drunkenness and attempted suicide. 'A When" ghe. was staying with' Meredith's mother m Christchurch, Mrs. Meredith hsid. told her that she was no daughter-in-law of hers, and that 'her real .daughter-in-law was living m England.. „ "When I asked Meredith ; if it were true : that he 'was married when he married me, he replied, 'Yes,' but he added that his wife -.:"• had no claim on him because of . something 'she had done," continued the accused woman. She wrote her last letter to Meredith m the latter part of 1918, when she drew a lump sum of £41 m Auckland. "I wrote and told, him that I was not drawing any more, and' that I was finished with him for everj" she said. She had not. had a reply to that letter, and had not heard of Meredith since. "Had I had any, doubt about Meredith being married previously, I would not have- married Earl," was her concluding statement. A The' two Justices who heard the story committed her to the ; supreme Court for trial, allowing bail- of £50 m her own recognisance; iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ .