THE CANCELLED BANK NOTES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14979, 27 April 1909, Page 4

THE CANCELLED BANK NOTES

HEMINGWAY’S JOURNEY FROM CHRISTCHURCH. ESCAPES ARREST HERE. James Hemingway, the man who was arrested in Wellington on Sunday on a charge of having broken into the General Post Office, Wellington, narrowly escaped arrest in Christchurch on Wednesday. He had been staying at the Federal Coffee Palace, and Detective Ward went there to arrest him. Hemingway, however, saw the detective and slipped out of the house, while the police officer went upstairs to investigate his room. It is thought that he slipped into someone else’s room on the second floor and waited until the detective' passed up to the third floor. Hemingway then rah into the street, and probably caught ai car to Papanui. The detectives think that he left the car at the terminus and "walked and ran to Kaiapoi, where some two hours after his departure from the Coffee Palace he hired a bicycle and cycled to Seddon and then, went on to Nelson, catching the boat to Wellington, whore he was arrested, hv the police, who had been warned of his escape by the Christchurch force.