WITH HIS PRISONER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLVII, Issue 10806, 29 December 1926, Page 3

WITH HIS PRISONER.

SERGEANT’S PILLION RIDE. The “long arm of the law” was used with crus sing effect by Police Sergeant Nunn, of Southampton!, during a ride on the pillion of a motorcycle driven by a man he was endeavouring to arrest. - . The story of the sergeant’s semes of acrobatic feats before finally putting the “half Nelson” on his prisoner was told a.t Eastleigh, near Southampton, when Victor Tricket was charged with stealing a bicycle and handed over to the Bognor police. Hearing that Tricket had been seen in the district, Sergeant Nunn commandeered a car and gave chase, found it too slow, and got into another; overhauled his man, who refused to stop; “humped” the cyclist’s back wheel and threw him into the roadway. When the alleged thief suddenly jumped on the bicycle and made a second bid for freedom, the sergeant made a flying leap on the pillion, and was given a thrilling ride past the police station at 30 miles an hour. He had to hug his prisoner tightly toi keep on the machine himself, and gradually, like a boaconstructor, he increased the pressure, until the man was forced to surrender.