NINE HOSTAGES
MAN WITH BIG FAMILY BEFORE COURT. ON CHARGE OF DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED. (By Telegraph—Press' Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. “I am really wondering what to do with a man like this who has so many hostages,” said Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today, when Alfred George Webb, a married man with nine children, appeared on a charge of being Intoxicated while in charge of a car. Webb was fined £l5, in default thirty days’ imprisonment. His licence was cancelled and endorsed and he was declared unfit to hold another licence for twelve months. The accused, said counsel, was the father of nine children and any penalty would probably affect them. Webb had already spent a night in gaol and in addition his degree of intoxication has been mild. The money for his fine had been guaranteed by a friend of Webb’s. “It is the nine children that are troubling me,” said the magistrate, “and it is difficult to know what to do with these men.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 7
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