MAN WHO DROVE BACKWARDS

Shannon News, 14 May 1929, Page 3

MAN WHO DROVE BACKWARDS

FINE OF £lO IMPOSED. In the Foxton Police Court on a recent morning before Mr J. K. Horn blow, J.P., A. V. Madden, of Shannon, was charged by the police with being drunk while in charge of a motorcar on Saturday. The accused, who had been bailed out on Saturday night, did not appear. W. Neville, traffic inspector, gave evidence to the effect that at about 4.30 on Saturday ..afternoon h? saw the accused driving his car backward instead of forward near the Post Office Hotel and he pulled out from the kerb without signalling. He followed the car to the Manawatu Hotel, where accused pulled up. Accused was not fin a fit state to be in charge of the car. Constable Owen, in evidence, said that he arrested the accused for drunkenness as he was leaving the Manawatu Hotel. He then had two bottle? of beer in his possession. The Constable took possession of the car, and refused permission to accused to drive it when bailed out. Accused was convicted and fined £lO, in default one month’s imprisonment.