DEFIED CAPTURE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 117, 19 May 1945, Page 5

DEFIED CAPTURE

DANGEROUS CONVICT

Man In Barricaded House Held Off Police

N.Z. Press Association—Copyright Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, May 18. Several thousand people at Leeds watched sensational scenes this afternoon when, for three hours, an armed escaped convict, Albert Dalby, 24, who had barricaded himself in an empty house, defied the efforts of the police and firemen to capture him. , , Dalby,, who had two revolvers, hid himself in the false roof of the house, threatening to shoot anyone who interfered with him. Firemen turned two strong jets of water on the house for half an hour, after which Dalby's father volunteered to climb the fire escape and appeal to his son to surrender. There was a 10-minute parley, in which Dalby brandished a revolver. The mission failed, and the firemen then again drenched Dalby, who climbed to the roof of the empty house, then over a neighbouring synagogue to an occupied house. He was there drenched for an hour by the firemen's hoses. He next broke through the skylight into the attic, after which detectives entered the nouse. , _ , Dalby reappeared on the roof, and the police were about to send for a military unit equipped with teargas when he surrendered and was taken away handcuffed. Earlier he had stolen a car in which he was unsuccessfully chased by the police. Trace of him was lost until he was. found in the empty house.