A FAIR BICYLIST'S TROUBLES.
((by telegraph.—own correspondent). Auckland, Last Night. " I want to know if it is allowable for a lady to be knocked off her bicycle," said Miss Bert In Jackson, a cycl st, at the Pulioe Court this morning, when she was charged with riding on the footpath " If he had told me properly," the continued, "I would have stopped." Constable Hin ton said : I haw a lady riding a bicycle on the footpath at Kingsland. When she got within about twenty yauls of me I called to her to stop. She was riding fast at the time and did not stop. I caught hold of the handle bar, and she fell off. The bieycle fell on top of her, and I fell on top of he bike. (Laughter). It was an accident of course. (More laughter). I was very sorry, but could not help it. Defendant said she was rid ng with her head down, as the sun was in her eyes and tho wiud strong. She did not hear the constable c ill out, and by the time she taw bun she could not stop. In imposing a tine of s', Mr Brabant, S.M , remarked that the duties of the p lice would be performed bet'er if ihey wore their uniform when in the street.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 245, 8 February 1898, Page 2
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219A FAIR BICYLIST'S TROUBLES. Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 245, 8 February 1898, Page 2
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