Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 30, 1922
The chief trouble with Aleck Thomson, Black Diamond coal miner, was that his feet simply wouldn’t take orders from his head.
Thomson, charged with driving a car while intoxicated, told Justice C.C. Dalton at a hearing in justice court yesterday that his head told him to put his feet on the brakes, but his pedal extremities insisted on resting on the accelerator.
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