Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-20
SPEED LIMIT IS
TOO LOW, THINKS
A. B. N M|LLEN
Believes ReckIeSSneSS and Not
Number Of Miles Should Be
Aimed at by Ordinance
Finedi So Is RoSIington.

/ Saying That twenty miles was moi
dangerous speed for an automobile
when driver who knew how to drive
Was NJ the wheel and that The chnrge
0f simply exceeding the speed limit
was at most technical violation, .
\ e. McMillen, president OF the Wa
ter supply company. spoke FOR the
better parl Of an hour yesterday be-
fore Judge craig Of ihe police court.
The point Of his argument was that
rccklegsncss was the real offense. lie
said he could stop his automobile go-
Ing at twenty-five miles an hour
quicker than team Of horses could
be brought to stand He believed
that reckless drivers should be
brought before the court and pun
ished. but when the street is clear he
did not think from twenty TO twenty
five miles was dangerous.
He had driven more than $500
miles and had never struck anyone
and yet he WAS 'hauled up the same
ms reckless drivers
Not 'and Ten Days"
Judge Craig in sentencing him,
stated automobile drivers who had
appeared before him IN two weeks
had asked why others hadn't been ar
rested and why A. b McMlllen had
not been arrested.
II find YOU guilty. finished Judge
Craig. Ten dollars or ten days lie
didn't enuneiatc the 'Or" distinctly
Ten dollars and what" asked Mr.
McMillen with unfeigned interest
Judge Craig made II clear that he had
not said and" but or" Mr. MeMil-
len announced he would appeal.
George Roslmgton. who followed him.
was given the same sentence and also
said he would appeal Roslington
also was charged with speeding
Mr. McMillen talk was not all an
impersonal discussion of the faults OF
the ordnance as he saw them re
thought 1t was "a dirty outrage that
this means Of filming should be taken
up He said he could take the po-
lice down the street and show them
where city laws were broken By put
ting things out on the sidewalk These
Wolators were not arrested but sim
ply told to stop He didn't under
stand why automobile owners should
be the pick Of the police" Also he
wanted 90 know why the ordinance
was not enforced IN daytime. His
opinion was that the ordinance Is UNI
reasonable
city AttOrncy Makes Answer.
city Attorney Thomas y. Wilkcr-
son answered the reference to the po-
lice picking ON Automobiles They
were continually getting complaints,
he said, that auto drivers as soon as
they got "a few blocks from the traffic
policeman ran their cars SO as "to
T.. L. al.
You've always contended that the
hest way to get rid OF bad law was
to enforce IT, he said to MI MoMil-
len.
Mr. NJ Millcn was arrested by Mo-
t0rcycle patrolman VI r. SHUT He
was astraddle Of his machine with the
engine COINS when the McMilen car
passed the high school The tail light
was not lighted and he followed.
When he passed under an are light he
looked at his ppccdometcr and II
showed twenty-threc miles and when
he looked At It again, twenty five
miles he said
patrolman Martin nyrucs arrested
Mr.. Roslington. He testified the Ros-
ington car was going at from twenty
10 TWENTY-FIVE miles when 1t passed I
lim on East Central avenue near
Walter street.
Mr. Rpslington made u sweeping I
statement that onc-half OF the auto /
mobile drivers IN the city broke the /
peed regulations every day Ilc had /
never had an accident He has driven I
! ear here Fifteen months
His defense was that the car i'm .
question could not go up East Cen /
raj faster than eighteen miles and /
1c would make the statement under
'ath that It was not going at fun speed /
hat night, lie also pleaded that 1t +
vas a eNsc of mistaken identity The
policeman said that while he did not I
zee who was in the car he saw the
lumber and remembered It.