INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 853, 23 December 1929, Page 1

INTOXICATED MOTORISTS

Three Arrests Over Weekend

KEG OF BEER IN MOTOR-CAR

THREE intoxicated motorists appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Police Court this morning. Two agreed to take out prohibition orders and were lined £1 and £5. The third, said by the magistrate to he the worst of the three, was fined £2O. lie admitted having no driver’s licence. All three accused pleaded guilty.

William Simon Outrim, who was given credit for stopping his car and sleeping when he felt the effects of liquor creeping over him, was fined £l. Outrim, a taxi-driver aged 45, pleaded guilty through Mr. Fleming to being intoxicated In charge of a car in Hepburn Street on Sunday morning. "This is not such a bad case,” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy. “Accused ■was found asleep In his car at 2.20 a.m., and gave the excuse that he was sleeping off the effects of liquor. He is a very decent fellow, and has had a great deal of family trouble lately. This is his first offence.” Mr. Fleming offered to call the evidence of prominent townsmen, including Mr. W. Casey, a member of the City Council, to speak in Outrim’s favour. He was one of the best taxicwners in the City. There had been a death in the family that had greatly worried him, and it had been necessary for him to make five trips to Hamilton recently. At X a.m. on Sunday Outrim had driven two men home. He had complained of a headache and one of the men had given him a nip of whisky, which Outrim had taken, as it was his last trip for the night. As soon as he felt the effects of the drink he stopped his car and rang up for someone to drive. The garage was empty, so he settled down to sle.ep. Counsel asked for a light line, urging that accused was a married man. Outrim agreed to take out a prohibition order. DRIVING ON FOOTPATH

"This man was noticed by the constable to be driving erratically—sometimes on the footpath and sometimes on the road,” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy, when Erie Norman Vincent. a salesman, aged 28, was charged with being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car in Customs Street on Sunday morning. Mr. Smyth entered a plea of guilty. Mr. Smyth said that accused was a share salesman and had a good position, which he had held for only about five weeks. He was a married man with three children. On Saturday night he had been drinking with an

old friend. It was the firm’s car he was driving. Counsel asked for the retention of accused’s licence as, if he lost it, his position would go too. His financial position jvas not good, and a heavy fine would hit him hard. He was prepared to take out a prohibition order. Vincent was fined £5. His driver’s licence was cancelled for three months, and he was prohibited by consent. He was given 14 days to pay the fine. KEG OF BEER IN CAR When Reginald William Wooley was arrested in Karangahape Road on Saturday evening he was found to have a three-gallon keg of beer and several bottles in the car with him. This morning Mr. Lovegrove appeared for him and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car .He also admitted having no driver’s licence. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said accused had been arrested at 6.20 p.m. He was seen by a constable to be driving erratically. The officer had tried to stop him hut the man evidently did rot see him, for he had to leap quickly out of the way. The constable followed in another car. Liquor had been found in the car and accused had explained that he was taking it out to a Christmas party at Avondale. He was a mechanic. Mr. Lovegrove said that Wooley had been at work dismantling the flying-boat which had recently crashed at Milford. At six o’clock a friend called with a car. The two men had one drink and then drove to the friend’s place at Grey Lynn. Wooley had then been loaned the car to drive home to Newton so, counsel urged, he could not have been very drunk. Mr. Lovegrove said, that though he did not hold a licence at present, Wooley had had many years’ driving experience. According to the doctor’s certificate he was not very drunk and had not had much liquor. He was an excitable man. His earnings were £3 a week and he was single. Wooley was fined £2O, in default one month’s imprisonment, and was given 14 days in which to pay the fine.