A DIFFICULT GIRL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19169, 7 November 1925, Page 12

A DIFFICULT GIRL.

EXCITiNG POLICE CHASE. DISGUISED IN BOY'S SUIT. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WANGAJTUJ. Friday. Two men and a maid were the participants in an exciting episode at Aramoho on Wednesday, which furnished ail the ingredients for a thrilling moving picture. The principals in the drama were a girl, fleet of foot, dressed in boy's clothes, and Detectives Gourley and Revell. The starting point was really a few days ago, when a wayward girl, after some extraordinary peregrinations, came into the hands of the Wanganui police, and the magistrate decided that she should be sent to a home at Christ-church. While arrangements for her transit were being made the girl was detained at a receiving home in Wanganui, where on Wednesday morning the discovery was made that a window was open and she had vanished. Two detectives at once took up the search, with a particular eye on the exits of the city, with the result that during the afternoon they were giving close attention to Aramoho railway station. It was with surprising suddenness that the cha.se developed. What appeared to be a slim young man made a sudden dive away from the platform, and led in a race that tried the pursuers soieiy. Detective Re-veil called up all his athletic powers, and tried to keep his quarry in sight, whiie Detective Gourley, who does not specialise in marathons, engaged a handy motor-car and took the most promising route. The chase led round several corners until there was finally a corner with a clear field ahead. Detective Revell then made a search in a neighbouring churchyard, and, hidden beneath a tree, the fugitive was located. The girl was dressed in a youth's suit, and, with a cap over her shingled locks, had uj> to the time when the detectives sighted her, passed without difficulty for a good-looking boy. It appears that after her escape from the receiving home on Tuesday evening the girl engaged a taxi and journeyed to Westrnere, where she successfully imposed on a well-known member of the Farmers' Union, in fact, so successfully, that she departed next morning with £5 in her possession. She next purchased a suit of boy's clothes in the and evidently made preparations for getting well away from Wanganui. As a matter of fact, she. informed the detectives after her capture that she intended to get to Auckland, where she was hopeful of being able to work her way over to Svdney on one of the intercolonial steamers as a " brass " boy.