Declaring that driving cars while under the influence of whiskey had to be stopped in the city, Judge Laurence Jones gave H.H. Sawyer, white man of Charlotte, the limit of punishment in the recorder’s court Monday morning by imposing a $100 fine and costs on him for chauffeuring while drunk.
Sawyer escaped the clutches of the law once Saturday night only to double on his trail and stumble back into the dragnet. It was t the corner of Third and Tryon streets that he was first noticed by Officer McGraw when he mistook one of Mr. Duke’s street cars for a fork in the road and rammed it amidships.
But e was as quick as the accident and with a honk of his horn and a flip of his head he did a horizontal loop-the-loop that landed him several blocks down the thoroughfare, leaving Mr. Duke to charge the damage to profit and loss.
But even as curiosity killed the cat, just so did it prove the downfall of Sawyer, for in spite of himself he could not resist the temptation to turn around and come back to see what he had done. In a rather unconcerned way he scooted by and gave a glimpse out of the corner of his eye that cost him $106, proving that there’s a moral I the cat story. Officer McGraw recognized him and placed him under arrest.
Judge Laurence Jones reminded Sawyer of the seriousness of his offense, pointing out that it was as easy to mistake a child for a filing station as it was to mistake a street car for a fork in the road, and that had such been the result f his recklessness his bread would have been buttered on both sides by the court.
From The Charlotte News, Monday, January 16, 1922
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