VALUE OF RADIO
AID TO POLICE
SEQUEL TO LONDON THEFT
CAR CHASES CAR
(United Tress Association—By .Electric
Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received January 17, 1 p.m.)
LONDON, January 16.
A dozen police cars on night patrol picked up a broadcast from Scotland Yard", circulated immediately after a theft. The broadcast announced a smash-and-grab raid at a fur shop at East Ham, and described a stolen saloon car in which the thieves were decamping.
The police cars dashed to the shop and one challenged a saloon car in the neighbourhood. The driver accelerated to 70 miles an hour, with the police car in pursuit sped down the street for half a mile, and attempted to swerve into a side street, but the car skidded and turned round. The police car crashed into it and filing it against an electric standard.
The police found that the driver had been killed, and the two other occupants seriously injured. It contained five fur coats.
The police chauffeur was slightly injured. .
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Evening Post, Volume CCXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1938, Page 9
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