LEAP FROM MOTOR-CAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19625, 2 May 1927, Page 10

LEAP FROM MOTOR-CAR.

PRISONER'S BOLD ESCAPE. A motor-car zig-zagging up Fleet Street, with a detective in the passenger's seat wildly searching for the right lever to press to bring it to a standstill . . . running down Fleet Street as hard as he could a man who had jumped from the driver's seat . . . That was the extraordinary sight a few early workers saw recently. It was not an episode " for the films," though it might well have been. It was a real-life, real-earnest affair. The running man was Albert Levy, aged 38, one of a number of people arrested some time ago int connection with motor-car thefts in the Derby district. At the police court Levy was granted bail. He did not appear at the assizes for his trial, and a warrant for his arrest was issued. The man was traced to an address in Chingford, and a detective arrested him thenf in the early hours. Ho did not appear greatly concerned, it is stated, and volunteered to drive the detective and himself to the police station, as at that hour there were very few trains. On the journey Levy appeared quite calm and talked, but as the car was going along Fleet Street he slowed down a little, and then suddenly bolted from the driving seat over the side of the car, leaving the detective sitting in the passenger seat, with the car still running on. As he jumped Levy stumbled, but be quicklv recovered his balance and made a dash down a narrow side turning leadins toward Holborn«and disappeared. The detective was not a competent motorist, and it was some moments before he succeeded in stopping the car. As soon as he had managed to stoo the car he jumped out and gave chase, accompanies by Citv constables who heard his shouts, but they found no trace of the missing man.