Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-21 | Page 2 | Judge Lenient in Traffic Case

JUDGE LENIENT IN TRAFFIC CASE Drunken Driving Charge Cut Cut Cu j Ii t Recklessness Man ManI I Pleads Guilty I 1 1 On recommendation of ot Commis stoner John M. M Knight drunken ing charges were reduced to reckless driving charges in police court Thursday Thursday Thurs day for W W. W. W Whitney 39 of ol 76 Fourth avenue avenue- who pleaded guilty t to the latter ch charge rge and was fined 25 21 by Judge Daniel Harrington I 1 recommended the reduced charge harge because police and the prosecuting prosecuting prosecuting prose prose- attorney informed me they did not have enough evidence to obtain obtain ob ob- tain a drunken drunk n driving conviction and the occupants of at the other car de dined to prosecute Commissioner Knight said Whitney according to police crashed rashed into a car parked in front of 61 Fifth East street owned by Mrs J. J A A. A McMillan Second avenue on June 8 ran over a lawn hit a tree then left the scene of the accident Reckless driving charges against George Weibel 25 of California were stricken b by Judge Harrington and a complaint of running a stop sign sub suIr He pleaded guilty to the latter latter latter lat lat- lat lat- ter charge and was fined Weibel according to police ran through a stop sign at Seventeenth South and Fourth East streets early Tuesday colliding with a car driven by Kenneth McKeene Grant Allred 28 of Logan avenue avenue ave ave- nue was fined 1 Sl when he pleaded guilty to running through a stop sign at Second West and Seventh South streets Wednesday When he pleaded guilty to speeding speeding speeding speed speed- ing charges Harry Bab Babe Babbel el 25 25 of 2468 Sixth East street was fined b by Judge Harrington Police said he drove 40 miles an hour on lain Maui Main street between First South and Eighth South streets Wednesday