The Times of San Mateo/1955/Driver Chooses Jail to Fine
Driver Chooses Jail to Fine
Motorists were fined and jailed on drunk driving charges and charges of being drunk in and about autos when they appeared before San Mateo Municipal Judge Fred Wyckoff yesterday.
William J. Davis, 804 Ruth avenue, Belmont, was given a choice of paying a $200 fine or spending five days in jail, and chose the latter after pleading guilty to a drunk driving charge. He was arrested Sunday night following a minor accident on B street in San Mateo.
Henry Bergquist, 709 Bayswater avenue, Burlingame, charged with drunk driving last Wednesday as the aftermath of an accident at Eleventh avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $200.
Murrell Manfred Lumley, 605 South El Camino Real was fined $150 on a charge of being drunk in and about an auto, as the result of a San Mateo collision last Wednesday also.
William C. Greely, 1756 Dale avenue, San Mateo, was granted a week's continuance on a charge of felony drunk driving. He was cited late Saturday alter his car struck a pedestrian. Mrs. Dessie Merrick, 61, 725 Fallon avenue in Shoreview.
Peter Robert Whitfield, Jr., arrested on a bench warrant charging violation of probation on an original non-support action was sentenced to six months in the county jail by Judge Wyckoff. He is a former resident of South San Francisco.
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