POLICE SEARCH

Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1935, Page 5

POLICE SEARCH

FOR ARMED MAN

CORDON DRAWN NEAR SYDNEY

(Australian Press Association),

SYDNEY, February 17

Nearly 40 police, drawn from the northern suburbs of Sydney, searched dense bush near Seaforth for more than fiv e hoars at night for a man who was alleged to be armed with a revolver. The police dog Toss was used in the search and all roads and bridges in the district were guarded. Motorists entering and leaving the district were stopped and questioned. A Seaforth householder telephoned the Manly policy and told a strange story. He said that a young man, an occupant of his house, had been behaving strangely, and had produced a revolver. He had left the house, and had later returned, clad only in trousers and singlet, with a dark stain on the singlet, which the householder thought was blood. When a threat was made that the police would be. informed the householder continued, the young man rushed into the bush.

A police cordon was rapidly organised, and a search began. About 8 p.m. a constable found a young man wandering through the hush barefooted. He attempted to overpower him, but the man who was strongly built, .struggled fiercely and eventually broke away. The police allege he dropped a fully loaded revolver as he was running away. Subsequently, the police learned that the man whom they sought had evaded their cordon. They entered a house and arrested a man whom they found in one of the bedrooms. Subsequently a man was charged with haring had an unlicensed revolver in his possession, and with having assaulted a constable-