VERY PECULIAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1939, Page 6

VERY PECULIAR

MOTOR-CYCLIST IN COURT. INSISTED THAT HE WAS INTOXICATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A motor-cyclist, Lawrence William Inns, a labourer, aged 35, who thought himself intoxicated and refused to leave the Central Police Station after he had been told to go, and asked that he be sent to gaol, was doomed to disappointment when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning for sentence. He was convicted by Mr H. A. Young, S.M., and ordered to come up for sentence within two years if called upon. Inns was ordered to take out a prohibition order and his driver’s licence was suspended until June, 1942. Sub-Inspector Packer said Inns left the hotel at 5.45 p.m. on June 5, and after riding for fifty yards crashed into the rear of a stationary car. A constable took Inns to the Central Police Station, where it was thought he was fit to ride the cycle, as Dr Scott could not certify him as unfit to do so. Accused himself at the time said he knew he was intoxicated and he wanted to be punished. He had been under medical observation in gaol during the week of his remand. “Do you mean to say that when you told him to go he refused to leave?” asked the magistrate. “Yes, Sir,” the sub-inspector replied. ‘He wouldn’t go. He did not want to be let off.”

“I think that in view of the medical report he should not drive a motorvehicle for some years.” said the magistrate, in entering a conviction. The circumstances of the case certainly are verj- peculiar.”