“SAYS TAXI DRIVER SHORT-CHANGED HIM,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 16, 1933. Page 3.
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Passenger and Driver In Court — Case Was Enlarged
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Monday night a local taxi driver drove a passenger from the Jock Harty Arena to the comer of Primes and Montreal Streets. An argument ensued over the payment of the fare. The passenger claimed that he gave the driver of the car a two-dollar bill, whereas the driver declared that he had only been handed a one dollar bill and only handed back the passenger seventy-five cents change. The passenger then claimed he had been short changed. In the argument which followed, it is alleged that the driver produced a one dollar bill, which he claimed his passenger had given him and that as he produced it, his passenger snatched the dollar. The case came before Magistrate J. M. Farrell in City Police Court today. After both sides of the case had been heard the magistrate enlarged the case for a day.
Two men who were in the car when the argument took place over the taxi fee told about seeing the driver of the car take a one dollar bill out or his pocket after his passenger stated he had handed him a two-dollar bill.
A motorist was charged with "driving or allowing his car to be driven in a reckless manner" on down town street on the night of Feb. 8. He pleaded "not guilty" and after the evidence of Constables Brennan and Down had been taken the case was enlarged for a day in order to give the accused an opportunity to secure a witness.
Pleading guilty to a charge of "having liquor in a place others than his own private dwelling,” a citizen was fined $100 and costs with the option of three months in jail.