CROSS-COUNTRY CHASE

Evening Star, Issue 19175, 16 February 1926, Page 5

CROSS-COUNTRY CHASE

CONSTABLE AND SUSPECT

INCIDENT IN ENGLAND

LONDON, February 1

A twenty-eight miles run to elude arrest produced a most extraordinary cross-country race between a constable, who is a member of a crack barrier club, and a former champion crosscountry runner, who was wanted on a charge of theft. The latter, seeing the constable in a lane at Sittin'gbourne, Kent, immediately bolted down a side street, vaulted garden fences, and climbed a convent wall. Here bo paused for breath, but was surprised to find llic constable hotly following. Again lie broke away, with a wild dash across fields and plough-land, taking fence,ditches, dykes, and hedges in bis si,ride. Then, seeing a passing lorry, be obtained a lift, but later saw a closed ear followThis lie 1 bought would be an oven quicker means of escape, so be stopped the ear and asked the drievr for a lift. The driver readily consented, and the suspect, on entering, was so surprised to see the constable inside that be surrendered without resistance. The constable, who was exhausted and cut and bleeding from bramble scratches, was unaware that bis quarry bad been aboard the lorry until the man walked right into bis clutches.