COUNTESS'S RETORT TO A POLICEMAN.

Shannon News, 29 July 1927, Page 3

COUNTESS'S RETORT TO A POLICEMAN.

SCHOOLBOY VISCOUNT STOPPED .IN CAR. LONDON, June 1. Viscount Somerton, son of the Earl and Countess of Normanton, who is now at Eton College, was fined £2 and costs at Bournmouth yesterday for driving a motor-car dangerously. A constable stated that when he told the viscount that he would be reported the countess, who was in the car, borrowed his pencil to write down the charge. She then said: "Thank you, I understand you have got to get eases to get promotion. Now that you have made a case I hope you get promotion." The viscount, the constable added, was driving at twenty-five miles an hour, and tried to pass two other cars going in the same direction. Lady Normanton gave evidence, and said that the speed of the car was fifteen miles an hour. Her son did not appear.