MAN HUNT AT NEW BRIGHTON.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 10

MAN HUNT AT NEW BRIGHTON.

New Brighton was the scene of » j sensational arrest yesterdsy: afternoon, • when a man ..who ia the possessor of •! several aliases, was taken into custody ; by the police «m a number of chiurges, i The police were on the scene sarly, { and went to a house at New Brighton, where it was learned he was staying, j shortly after daybreak, only tt| fiiici j that he had left. They proceeded to i tnc Bottle Lake Hospital, where lie was understood to be working, hiifc. his' Waa j evidently on the look-out, add when Jio ' saw them approaching he iook ijo his ; heehvaiid disappeared into some .Scrub, j He had about'a minute's start, Ijmt 'it, I was sufficient to enable him tethpor- i ariiy to keep out of their cluteues. I He was -chased about-two milei, the i rubber soles he had on. his boots; leav- j ing b, distinct imprint in the Muidy j sou. The searchers were reinforced and j while a s»eaib' ''look-out' was ;ibeing i kopt for hiui, jDetective-iiergeaai Gib- j soiij anticipating that he would; p'rob- j ably make lor Knottier house-ai;' New i Unghton, sent a party, consisting of | Detectives Biekerdike and audi Constables Hiatop and Smith, ! in a \ motor-car, to look for him. The an- j ticipatiou was correct, for as the car j came into sight the man; whel is aj powerful runner, and "who had takeii J a. short cut across country, made a -j dash out of the house. On thisoccas- j ion, however, the police were too* many \ for him, and he was taken into custody j about 300 yards from the house i.

He is to be brought the Court, this morning ia respect of charges of breaking and entering a' store at Springston, the store of L. M. Davies, Papanui road, and the Paramount Tailoring Company, Maiitihester street. It is understood that lie will also be charged with having committed an assault on a young woraan at Burwood.