PATROL IN SMASH.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 7

PATROL IN SMASH.

AFTER THRILLING CHASE.

fc . WIBEUU CABS BUST. *&"> &$f IN TWO CAPITALS. ■••=?&■- — (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, June 3. Police wireless patrol cars in Sydney and Melbourne were engaged in thrilling hunts for respects on Saturday night. The Sydney patrol, in a whirlwind dash after a car, came into collision with another vehicle and was wrecked. Soon after midnight the Sydney patrol car sighted another car in George Street. The suspect car contained four men, and had no tail-light, while the back number was partly obliterated. So the patrol gave chase. Through the city streets the race was run, the suspects turning into Miller's Point, where they circled round a street garden and started back to the city. One of the patrolmen jumped out on the road and signalled for them to stop, but they kept right. on, and he was forced to jump, aside hurriedly tb avoid being run down. The patrol turned and continued the chase, which led round Circular Quay, and along Phillip Street. The suspect car was doing more than forty miles an hour when it crossed over the Hunter Street intersection, and the patrol was only twenty yards behind. But a Ford car essayed the crossing after the suspects had shot past, got in the track of the patrol, and both vehicles were wrecked in the resulting collision. Fortunately, none of the occupants of the two cars concerned was injured, but the patrol was definitely out of the hunt. The case was immediately taken up by detectives, who waited all night st a garage in William Street, Sydney, and subsequently arrested a man who drove a car up to the garage at 10 a.m. on Sunday. ... He was later charged on several counts. At the same time as the Sydney chase was proceeding the Melbourne wireless patrol was informed that s car worth £300 had been stolen. The patrol sighted the car in question, and after a thrilling chase im ■which both cars were doing more than 50 miles an hour, the police car forced the fugitive car to run on to the foot* path. As the stolen car eased op three mea jumped from it and ran to escape, but the police were ready for the move, and gave chase, and overtook them. They were arrested and charged with stealing the car. >*~ -