The Archive · 1938

Game of Bowls

Judge—You can't play bowls without it—You can't.

Continuing he added that he only drank whiskey and soda and he had had about three or four of these. No other members of the party were under the influence of drink. Although he was a jockey he was not used to driving cars at a fast speed. The accident, he further reiterated, was caused by the sudden swerve of the rickshaw which was about 17 feet from the edge of the pavement.

Witness was questioned as to why he had not mentioned that fact at the time of the accident, the Judge adding that that would have been his first impulse to say "Why the devil did you pull out like that?" Perhaps Mr. Marshall had been wiser than he would have been, continued the Judge.

The case was adjourned until today.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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