Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-02 | Page 11 | Woman Driver Draws 90-Day Term in Jail

WOMAN DRIVER DRAWS 9 DAY DAY TERM IN JAIL SL Mother Sentenced for Drunk Driving Will Appeal Two motorists one a a. mother we were given heavy jail terms Monday following fol fo lowing recent convictions in poli police court on charges of drunken driving Ninety days imprisonment w was the penalty Imposed upon M Mrs Ellen Christensen 28 28 48 8 4 Z West Wert Broadway convicted convicted by a jury Fe 20 on a charge of at drunk drunken i n driving Her counsel filed bon bond for an appeal to Third district court The charge was based on an accident acci dent February 12 at Garfield avenue and State street in which six Binham Bin Bini ham men suffered injuries Mrs Christensen the first woman convicted of drunken driving In S Salt lt Lake City this year appeared before Judge Ellett Elicit F February 13 plead pleaded d guilty and sentence was stayed to permit arranging custody for her year old son Changes Plea Flea Several days later Mrs Christen Christensen sen sen through her attorney Sidn Sidney Reid withdrew her plea and pleaded plead d not guilty She claimed the original plea pica had been due to some b ball U bondsman telling her a light fine fine- or finer r suspended jail sentence would r sult suIt from such a plea During the trial the defense contended con can tended Mrs Christensen drove an an automobile of a companion who was was was' too intoxicated to drive Testimony revealed she had had several beers prior to the tho accident F. F LeRoy Reese 20 Murray will spend all his spare days the next several months in the city jail 0 After Atter pleading guilty FebruaryS February to a charge of ot drunken driving Reese Monday was sentenced to h days in the city j jail il Because of dependents the jurist arranged for Reese to spend d days and Sundays in jail when not lem- lem employed em em- played on W P A projects T Traffic Accident The charge was was was' an aftermath ofa of ofa a a. traffic accident February 1 Jn in which the Reese Reese- car allegedly ran Into the Ute rear of an automobile piloted piloted pi pi- pi by Frank Davis In front of ot 1136 South Main street Refusing the thC the request st of at Lester Hill Hili 29 Fo Fort l Douglas i. i to to trant transfer ithe i- i r the ca case e to the military post paiL oJ Judge dge Ellett scheduled the soldier for tri for trial l- l March 11 after alter he had pleaded not guilty to drunken driving Saturday L Hill was arrested by W. W D. D Perry traffic Investigator near Fifth East and Ninth South streets Sat Saturday rd after the thc allegedly drove er er- er- er Hill was released on bail ball bond If It W. W D. D Str Stringer 29 23 Downey Idaho is found inside Salt Lake City limits he will be brought into court courton on a bench warrant ordered Issued by the judge t to ans answer ver a cha charge ge of ot reckless driving After Atter being chased ch-ased from near th tle e eDavis Davis county line toward the city's business district was was' arrested ar ax- rested for allegedly driving at aLa ata a high rate o of speed and weaving Inand In Inand inand and out of heavy traffic Sunday e posted 25 bail which was forfeited Pleads Not Guilty Andrew Warr Varr 51 East ThUr South street pleaded not guilty to reckless driving will ll be tried March 12 Harold Chr ChrIstensen Christensen Chris ChrIs- tens en 25 similarly accused h had d his time for plea continued to to March 11 V V George Brandley 26 West North Temple street forfeited 10 and J. J R. R Riddle 25 East Fifth l South street forfeited 5 on speedIng speeding speed speed- ing charges I