A PECULIAR DEFENCE.
ALLEGED MOTORING WITHOUT LIGHTS. Per Press Association. Tlmani, Last Night. Eden, the owner of a car plying for hire, was charged with driving on the public road by night without lights. The case was dismissed on a piece of delicate evidence, Eden alleged that he had been on the wrong side of the road, when he met a motor cycle with light? on the right side of the road, and in order to avoid a collision, he suddenly turned the car right round, upset it and was pinned beneath. The charge was dismissed on the evidence that he told the cyclist, who came to his aid, to piit out the lights, for fear that the petrol would be fired and that lie would be burned with the car—(the lights were then out, however). Another witness stated that the bottom of the kerosene ght was smoked inside as if it had been burning while upside down.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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158A PECULIAR DEFENCE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5
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