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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 19 August 1919, Page 6

An exciting man hunt took place at Addington on Friday. At the end_ of the seventh race at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting, a young fellow is alleged to have walked up _to a paying-out window of the toltalisator and, snatched £2O in, banknotes from the ledge. He is •hen stilted to have dodged in among the jcrowd, and made full speed for the Show Grounds adjoining. Inside the totalisator were Detective Abbott and Acting-Detective Bickerdike. They had, however, to traverse the full length of the building before reaching the egress door. They saw their quarry making for s to Show Ground fence, and in compxuy »■ tb Mr, M‘Leiman, of the totalisator, set out in hot pursuit, while behind them panted the crowd. Over tiro high fence leapt the quarry with the agility of a practised hurdler, and following him in athletic manner came Acting-D ...t-ctivo Bickerdike, with a few in c *«o attendance. Meanwhile Detective Abbott had run round to foe th.it the suspect did not escape by the C' .t<s For haif-ani-hour ilcting-Deli'c t'Me Bickerdike chased his i in round the Show taking uarej th.'jij hje did not scale die fence and esayie in that manner, and finally lie ran him to earth, hiding among some manuka hurdles. Hie man was arrested. Earlier in the afternoon -wo detectives arrested a man on the grounds upon a charge of forging a totalisator ticket by altering its number.