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TREAT A DRUNKENAUTOMOBILE DRIVERVINCENNES, June 29.—A fine of $5 and costs and a jail sentence of 30 days, with the latter suspended conditionally, was the package drawn in city court Thursday morning by. Hersehe! Hamm, charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated. The trial was heard before Mayor John M. Grayson, who rendered a verdict of guilty. The case was the outgsowth of the incident of last Sunday evening when young Hamin drove his automobile into the Mt. Calvary cemetery after an exciting run down Fairground avenue a^id Seventh street.The jail sentence was suspended on condition that Hamm surrender his title of ownership to the car for a period of sixty days, refrain from driving unother, automobile for that period of time, that he pay the damages for which he was ^sponsible. He agreed to all this.Hamm on the stand testified that he had no recollection of the Sunday afternoon incident untfl he awoke in jail at 3 o’clock Monday morning. He testified that he had cut the grass at his home and became hot from the !work. After that he said he took the !children for a short ride, before this \ however, taking a small swallow or { two from a bottle containing cherry wind. He states that he remembers nothing of what happened after the children left the car. Hamm testified that he is not a drinking man and was not intoxicated at the time, but is of the opinion that the wine contained something }hat drugged or poisoned him. *Mayor Grayson declared that he believed his story about not being a drinking man, hut that the safety of the public npceesitated that some action he taken in such cases as ^to. and rendered a finding of guilty,
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Bicknell Daily News
Bicknell, Indiana, US
Sat, Jun 30, 1923
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