INJURED CONSTABLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 252, 21 September 1933, Page 8

INJURED CONSTABLE.

THE CAR CHASE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 20. Constable Ernest Stewart, who was injured while attempting to catch a car. thief, was still in a serious condition to-night, although there was a slight improvement. Up to a late hour no arrest had been made. At the time of the chase lie was in mufti. When he boarded the taxi the latter soon overhauled the car and headed it to the kerb, where it stopped, but when the constable jumped on the running board it quickly backed out and sped off. The taxi followed, doing 45 miles an hour, but could not keep pace. To those in the taxi it. looked as if a fight was going on. The car swerved all over the road. When picked up, the constable had been rolled thirty yards along the road. He was covered with blood. His leg appeared to he mangled. He was gasping with pain, but was given a cigarette, and when another constable arrived he immediately called on him to take a statement. This was done by the light of a torch, the injured man retaining remarkable control of himself. The stolen car was found this morning only a quarter of a mile from the scene of tlie crash.