POLICE CHASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 16

POLICE CHASE.

HIGH SPEED PURSUIT DRAMATIC STORY IN COURT. THREE MEN ARE REMANDED. (My 'IVli'urnjili. Piv«m Association.) WKU.IN't; I'O.V, Friday. Mow a motor car. alleged to have been r,in Vl .ilc,l. mi. driven at a high speed through Wellington streets last, niffhl uliile |■ 11 r^11 e11 by a taxi containing two |"•fi <i. coiw|,i bleu, was (old in the Mil ■■ i~ lijil r-i ( mirl in Wellington to dm . u In ii three men appeared before Mr. .1. 11. '~ i \ 1111, |, S.M.. charged with breaking mid enlei ing and 4 heft. l-eonaid Nciling, labourer, aged 20. Kennel || .lory UeiMe-, labourer, aged JO, anil Mcmanl Holme*. labourer, aged were charged with breaking and entering I lie store ol Johnston and Company. Island May, on April 27, and committing theft. Nciling and Reeves were charged also with unlawfully converting a motor car, valued at £100, the property of Cordon Stewart Traill. On the application of DeteetiveScrgea nt I'. I >oy le. th«» accused were remanded lo appear iu Wellington again on May •>, Wliiln on duty in Constable Street last night, ( oiis|j(ble I', .1, Miles saw a motor car with only one head lump burning, saiil Detective Sergeant Dovle. Later ill the night the constable again saw till* car, but at the time knew nothing of the alleged conversion. Ho received this in loriiia tio a On returning to the Wellington South police station, and in company with Countable .\. Ansell, went to intercept the ear. They acted on the iiMiimpt ion that the car would return front Island Hay, but when it appeared In Adelaide Itoad the constable* were unable to stop it. They hired a taxi and gavo chase Immediately. It was alleged that the car travelled through city streets at a high speed and on occasions tried to run the taxi off the road. It wiw alleged also that articles were thrown at the driver of the taxi. The chase wim continued to Petone, #aid Detective-Sergeant Doyle, and one man jumped out, but the taxi driver succeeded in heading the other car on to the road leading to Kastbourne. The police followed the wanted car until it reached Kastbourne and entered ii blind road. Nelllug and Neevea were arrested and a large quantity of property alleged to have been was found iu the car. Holmes was arretted later in the night by Detective K. Tripney.