Posted with permission of the transcriber, 'Ann' Geo. The West Cumberland Times, Saturday, Nov. 14, 1931. WHY HE WAS LATE. ______ Defaulter's Eventful Ride. At a special Police Court at Workington on Wednesday afternoon - before Colonel DUDGEON, chairman, Messrs. F. W. IREDALE, and J. BOWERBANK and Miss. THOMPSON. Anabelle WILSON 3 Barnes Road, Workington, summoned her husband, Bernard Adrian WILSON, 12 Union Street, Blackburn, for non payment of maintenance arrears and costs amounting to £7 10s 6d. WILSON should have appeared at Court in the morning to answer the charge. A warrant was issued for his arrest but was not executed. He turned up after the morning Court had risen and his explanation, that a motorcycle which he had borrowed to make the journey from Blackburn had broken down three times en route, was accepted. He left Blackburn at 4 a.m. Mrs. WILSON said her husband belonged to Blackburn and she received an order against him in March 1930, for 2s 6d a week. The charge against him, she said, was failing to provide reasonable maintenance for herself and her two children. She had him up on a warrant in June 1930, and the Magistrates committed him for 14 days but suspended the committal as long as he paid 2s 6d a week, and is a week off in arrears. The last payment was made in February 1931. Mrs. WILSON, continuing, said, that her husband was sacked from his job because a woman used to go to the garage where he worked to see him. He had since owned a motor truck but she did not know whether he still had it or not. The defendant then asked his wife who told her about the woman going to the garage. He would like to know, because he could get proof that it was untrue. Defendant said that he had only been getting the Dole 'on and off' for twelve months. He had only a week's work in that time. He received 15s 3d a week. Col. DUDGEON: Did you not get an allowance for your wife and children? Defendant: No. Mr. SKERRY (the Clerk): What about this motorcycle you have been riding? Defendant: It belongs to a friend of mine. I borrowed it to come to Workington on, but it broke down three times on the way here and I was unable to be on time for the Police Court this morning. It was true that he owned a motor truck; he bought it with some money his mother had left, but for six months it had been laid up, and in the end he had sold it for scrap for £3. The defendant was committed for a month but the committal was suspended as long as he paid his wife 2s 6d a week and 2s 6d a week off the arrears.