STOLEN CARS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1936, Page 7

STOLEN CARS

BURGLAR IN STORE. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] INVERCARGILL, July 1. In the early hours of this morning, a burglar was disturbed while in the act of breaking into the East Gore store of Mac Gibbon and Company, the burglar escaping in a car, which was recognised as that reported from Invercargill as having been stolen from Otatara on Tuesday evening. The driver of the car charged a constable who was attempting to intercept his flight. The constable visited the East Gore service station, and flashed his torch around to ascertain if all was in order. There appeared to be nothing wrong, but the constable’s attention was attracted by a motor-car standing outside of the premises of Mac Gibbon and Company, across the road. He went over to investigate, but the intruder had apparently been warned by the constable’s investigations at the service station, and he was already in the car. As the constable approached, he started up the car, and charged straight at the constable, who was forced to jump out of the way, and the car disappeared across a bridge. An inspection of the store revealed that the front door had been forced with a tyre lever, or other similar instrument, but nothing appeared to have been taken. TWO MEN ARRESTED. TIMARU, July 1. The Timaru police to-night arrested two young men in the vicinity of Pareora, south of Timaru, and they will be charged with converting a car, the property of a Mosgiel resident. An epidemic of car-thieving comnreced in Ashburton on Monday, since when cars have been stolen from Timaru, Herbert, Dunedin, Invercargill and Mosg'iel.