JUMPED INTO RIVER
• Escapee From Police ARRESTED IN WATER By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, August 28. A chase to which the parties were a constable and two young criminals had a cold ending last night with the arrest of one of the offenders in the middle of the Avon. The story was told in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when Alfred Leonard Sheedy, aged 18, and Mervyn John Ellis, aged 17, both labourers, were charged with converting to their own use a car valued at £350, the property of Aiister Young.. They pleaded guilty and were remanded for a week for further inquiries. The police said that the youths had been seen trying to start the car. They ran off when the police arrived, and Sheedy jumped into the river.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 9
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129JUMPED INTO RIVER Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 9
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