THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932.
A
TRAFFIC CASE.
DANGER DRIVING NOT
SUBSTANTIATED
for aummons
alleged
dangerous driving against Lam
CONTRACT BRIDGE
Chuen, a chauffeur in the employ By W. E. McKenney
of Mr. M. W. Lo, was dismissed by It is generally considered a bad Mr. Schofield on Saturday, follow-play deliberatoly to lead a card Ing successful pleas by Mr. Horace that the declarer can ruff in one Lo, on behalf of the defendant. hand and discard in another, but Sorgt. Howell, a Polico Patrol there are exceptions to all rules
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November 8 ho was in the wake of band is one.
an Austin "baby" car driven by the defendant and going downhill in Stubbs Road. At the bottom, ha stopped the car and told the driver that he had been driving dangerously, also at a speed which was unsafe, namely between 23 and 26 miles an hour.
The dangerous driving, as he had explained to the defendant, was in going over to the wrong side of the, road in taking the bends, so much so that on two occasions, the car: narrowly missed another which was going uphill, and went well over the white line.
EAST
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In cross-examination by Mr. Lo, witness said he formed the opinion of dangerous driving from the beg-
The Bidding. inning. He was never more than four or five yards behind the car
South passed, West passed and throughout that distance.
Enet bid North bid one spade. Mr. Lo: Do you seriously tell his two hearts. South has a distribu- Worship that with the car travel tional raise and went to two spades. ing at the dangerous speed you West helped his partner's hearts clafm, you allowed yourself, and to three and North bid three spades considered yourself safe in doing:
Ho, to follow him within such close which bought the contract.
The Play, distance?
East had the opening lead and Witness replied that his cycle was equipped with good brakes, and opened with trump-the nine of he was confident he could have spades. North, the declarer, won pulled up in case of accident over-the trick with the ace and return- taking the car he was following. ed the king, picking up the out- standing trump. Declarer now Car not Stopped.
played his ace and king of clubs Further questioned, he admitted following with the four of clubs that apart from sounding his horn which he trumped in dummy with the four of spades. The queen of two or three times, he made no hearts was led from dummy, West attempt to warn the car or stop it.
Mr. Lo suggested that persistent refused to go up with the ace play- Rounding of the horn should have ing second hand low, declarer play- its effect in drawing the attentioned the four and East won the trick of the driver ahead, and preventing which West won with the ace. with the king, returning a heart him from pursuing his dangerous West returned the queen of dia-
career.
The driver then went into the monda, declarer played the king witness-box
denied and East won the trick with the
ace, dangerous driving.
whore
he
Other points put forward by Mr. There is nothing now in dummy Lo at the conclusion of the evidence but two trump and three diamonds. were that if Sergt. Howell had It looks as though the natural play thought the dangerous driving to
for East to make fa to play the be so marked, as he had said It was, jack of diamonds, but the East at the second bend, he should have player, when this hand was played, brought the driver of the other car hand and he deliberately led aheart had carefully counted the North RB 1 witness; that in the case they had only one man's word againsttunity to ruff in either hand and which gave the declarer an oppor another; and that the dangerous discard in the other. But as the characteristics of Stubbs Road pre declarer held four diamonds in cluded the possibility of dangerous each hand, a ruff and a discard did driving on the part of an cx-c perienced chauffeur like Lam not mean much to him--he could Chuen, who had had three-and-a ruff in dummy with a small Spade
and discard a diamond from his; half years' unblemished record.
In giving his decision, which ac-own hand, but he now had to lead cepted most of Mr. Lo's points, Mr. diamond into East's fack nine Schofield said he thought in the which gave East two diamond first place that more might have tricks, thereby defeating the de- been done to try to stop the defen-plar's contract of three spades one dant if he was pursuing trick.
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dangerous course of driving such While it is unusual to grant the as described. One think which declarer a ruff and a sluff, there could have been done was to blow are times when the play can be a police whistle, if it was thought made for an extra trick as shown that a bulb horn could not be heard. to-day.
Mr. Lo: That has been done in
ing. The case, his Worship said, previous cases.
Mr. Schofield, continuing, said he had failed on the corroborative agreed that four or five yards be-point justifying a conviction. hind all the way down Stubbs Road was undoubtedly too close to be safe if the Sergeant thought the car he was following was being driven in the dangerous manner. described.
A similar set of circumstances presented by a provious case was recalled by his Worship, who re- marked that had the Sergeant wish- ed to obtain the necessary corro- borativo evidence, there was a much better chance of his doing so by following at a distance which would permit him also to take in the number of the other car approach-
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