CAR RUNS AMOK
THRILLS AT AERODROME KINGSFORD SMITH’S CHASE ' ' [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.! ■■_ ' i (Received August 13, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 13. Running amok in a high-powered racing car, Which is reported to have been stolen from a city showroom, and which contained also his six-year-old daughter, a man drove at breakneck speed, among the aeroplanes at Archerfield aerodrome. He crashed into two planes, broke through three fences, before he left the aerodrome with three cars in pursuit.
Sir Kingsford Smith’s Southern Cross was one of the machines menaced. Smith stood guard with a loaded rifle, forcing the driver of the car-to sheer away from the Southern Cross.,
The famous aviator led the subsequent chase, after the wrecker,- and though the cars were travelling at sixty miles an hour, fired shot after shot at the tyres of the racex* until the fugitive stopped. The man submitted quietly. / . Later, William Elder was charged with being under suspicion of being insane. ■ < ‘
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1932, Page 7
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