CART GOES ASTRAY
DRIVER TOO DRUNK COLLISION WITH CAR James Langton kissed the Book with nervously defiant smack in the Onehunga Police Court this morning and denied that he was drunk while in charge of a horse and cart in Manukau Road. Epsom. Frank Stradwick, driver ot a motorcar, said that he stopped his car behind a stationary tramcar, when Langton came up from behind and, afetr colliding with the car on the side, immediately tell down on the floor of his cart. When a bystander attempted to hold the horse’s head Langton got up and, furiously flourishing his whip, caused the horse to rear and plunge. Eventually Langton drove away. Constable Johnsen told the court that Langton was drunk an hour afterwards. Langton, in the witness-box, gave a spirited exhibition of how to drive a horse, and denied having been drunk. He said the constable advised him to send for a doctor, but he was not drunk and was not going to pay for a doctor. The “feller" in the motorcar ran into him, pulling his car right in front of him and stopping him getting through. “If I was drunk how could I drive to my home five miles away with the horse I had?” he said. Mr. P. A. Levien, S.M., was not convinced and fined Langton £3 and costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 11
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223CART GOES ASTRAY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 632, 8 April 1929, Page 11
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