AN EXCITING CHASE.
PROWLER FOUND IN HOTEL. (Per Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, April 10. Shortly before noon to-day people passing the Club Hotel were amazed to see a man dash out of the corridor, hurriedly mount a bicycle, and pedal furiously along Dee Street, hotly pursued by a small army of waitresses and other employees of the hotel. The fugitive turned down Esk Street toward the station, and then went round the Crescent. He was last seen riding at a fast speed along Tay Street, in an easterly direction. During his ffight round the Crescent one or two men endeavoured to intercept the cyclist, but with a celerity that would have done to an All Black, the rider swerved past them. The excitement was caused by the mail being discovered in the servants' quarters of the hotel, from where sums of money are reported to have been stolen. f
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 4
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148AN EXCITING CHASE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 154, 11 April 1930, Page 4
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