HIDE AND SEEK.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 1914, 7 September 1921, Page 5

HIDE AND SEEK.

"WANTED" MAN CAPTURED.

IN H'AWKE'S BAY HAYLOFT.

On Monday last the "Manawatu Times" told the story of how the Shannon constable saw a man in the Palmerston North Square who was "wanted," how he pursued him on a bicycle, how he commandeered a. motor-car, and how he subsequently abandoned the chase.

The "wanted" man evidently made his way to. Dannevirke, and the "News" tells the sequel as follows: After a day in hiding on Monday, Charles Henry Roxborough, who was wanted on a charge of the theft from a motor-car at Tokomaru of a suitcase and contents, valued at £l7 5/, was apprehended shortly before 10 p.m., hiding in a hayloft at Tipapa. kuku. Prisoner is not unknown to the police, and apparently is a very slippery customer. When Constable Campagnolo was on duty early on Monday morning he made some inquiries ac the Junction Hotel, and found that a man named Roxborough had stayed there the night. Shortly after coming out the constable, who only had a photograph to work on, saw a young man come out with a bicycle and overcoat. He looked remarkably like the suspect, and Constable Campagnolo was advancing to have a word with him when Roxborough forestalled him. He dropped his. bicycle and overcoat and ignominiously bolted, with the man in blue in pursuit, but at the bottom of Gordon Street the fugitive took hedges and ditches and fences and every other obstacle in accomplished style, and got away.

But tliis was only the start of the hunt. The remaining members of the force pot busy. There was good reason for anticipating that Roxborough—who is not unknown in these parts—would hang round Tipapakuku distiict, and throughout the day a glimpse was obtained of him once. The police surmise proved correct. About 8 o'clock he called at a residence, but as the occupants had been warned he got a cold reception, and when the police—Constables Barton and Tindall —subsequently paid a visit to the place tli*r discovered their man hidden under the hay in a loft in which they had drawn a blank previously.

It is said that Constable Tindall stood on him in the hayloft, which caused him to wriggle and thus disclose his identity.

Prisoner, a young man, appeared before Mr G. Thorburn, J.P.. yesterday morning, charged with the theft, and was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on Friday next.

It appears that when in hiding in the gully near the Mangatera stream he had his searchers in sight all the time, as lie was able subsequently to detail their movements.