JUMPED FOR FREEDOM.
SUSPECTED SHOPLIFTER-
IiEAP INTO CROWDED STREET.
SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day. A man suspected of shoplifting startled the busy throng in Cuba Street shortly before 8 o'clock last night by jumping from a eliop verandah into the crowded thoroughfare.
A little earlier the man had been detained by the management of a large department store and accused of shoplifting. He had been taken upstairs to the manager's office,
and when the manager turned his back for a moment, ho made a desperate dasli for liberty by jumping out of a window on to the verandah, from which he leaped to the street and freedom. A large crowd immediately gathered at the scene and the police were called, hut the man, who was lucky not to any injury when he dropped to the street, could not be traced. It is believed his identity can be established.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 10
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JUMPED FOR FREEDOM.
Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 10
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