CHASED FOR TWO MILES

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29717, 10 January 1962, Page 10

CHASED FOR TWO MILES

Man Suspected Of Shoplifting (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Jan. 9. The manager of a Queen ; street department store, Mr A. Studd, chased a man for i about two miles through city . streets this afternoon after a shoplifting alert had been given in the building. Mr Studd grappled with the man outside the store,!' Price and Dempster, Ltd.,]! then ran after him through' High, O'Connell, and Shortland streets, Anzac avenue, round trucks and carriages in the railway marshalling : yards to the Station Hotel ini' Beach road. 1 The man was arrested by the police in a bar of the hotel and will appear in -the Magistrate’s Court tomorrow morning. Mr Studd. a former ju-jitsu instructor, said the pace—in i hot afternoon sun—was not "too tough” until Shortland street when the man broke i into a hard sprint. In Anzac avenue he told a passer-by about the chase and asked him to watch where the pair went andi keep the police informed. “I'm very grateful to him for doing so,” he said. “He* watched us run through the! yards to the hotel. “Fortunately I’m pretty fit : —I went shooting last week- : end—but I was wet through ’ when I got back to the shop,” i