The Road Terror

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 13

The Road Terror

A COUNTESS CONVICTED “YOU GO TO HELL!” HER LADYSHIP OF KINNOULL. The Countess of Kinnoull. of Ciiosit:• ■ i e.d Street. Afa via ii. wa * fin ed ■_ _ o * This was the result of a charge at Atari borough Street Police Court .»C driving a motor-ear in a manner dangerous to the public. Constable Jenner said that he was on duty at night in Beak Street, W.. by u pole-and-trestle barrier erected across the thoroughfare to keep the crowd back in connection with the collapse of two houses, when he heard a car draw up with a “squ.ullng” of He heard an argument taking pir and went to the back of the crowd. A man complained of being very nearly knocked dowr. lie (the eonstable) hoard the Countess saw “Oh, you go to hell!” The man then said. “There you are, constable! That is the fourth tiuie has said that to me.” Air. Alead (magistrate): Did she seem sober?—Yes, sir. Constable Jenner added that the Countess said to him that she did not think there were so many people about in the street. Mr. Vernon Miles, for the Countess, who was not present, said that she was not going at a fast speed. A man said something to her which she regarded iis unjustified, and there was something of an argument. The following previous convictions . In June 1927. fined £lO at i>t. Xons, Huntingdon, for driving at a speed dangerous to the public. £3 and £ 2 at Westminster in January, 1927, for two cases of excessive speed. £5 at Hamstead in October. 1926. fof excessive speed, and £ls at Shrewsbury in September, 1925, for driving in a manner dangerous to the public. There were also three minor motoring convictions. Before her marriage in 1923, the Countess of Kinnoull was Aliss Enid Hamilton-Fellows, of Tangley Park, Worplesdon, Surrey. Her mother left her a fortune of £1,000,000. The Countess, in March this year, instituted divorce proceedings against her husband.