CHASE AT ONEHUNGA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19931, 27 April 1928, Page 13

CHASE AT ONEHUNGA.

STOLEN CAR RECOVERED. CONSTABLE AND FUGITIVE. ARREST MADE AFTER STRUGGLE.

Following the removal of a motor-car belonging to Mr. E. R. N. Russell from outside his residence in Princes Street, Auckland, in the early hours of yesterday morning, it was recovered two hours later by the Onehunga police m exciting circumstances.

Soon after receiving notification from the central police station of the theft of the car, Constable Johnsen, of the Onehunga police, who was on night patrol duty, saw what he believed to be the missing car being driven along Queen Street, Onehunga, toward the Mangere Bridge. When called upon to stop the driver sped on. Anticipating that the driver might return the constable kept a car in readiness and when his surmise proved correct and the driver of the missing car again failed to stop when challenged, he gave chase. The fugitive was overtaken and there' upon jumped out and clambered through a fence, the constable close on his heels. After a chase and a lively struggle the man was taken into custody and was safely lodge'd in the lock-up at Onehunga. Constable Johnsen received painful abrasions to one hand through contact with the <barbed-wir6 fence.

A charge of converting to his use the motor-car, valued at £SOO, and with resisting arrest, was brought against Nicholas Frederick Lindholm, alias Lind, alias de Casse, in the Onehunga Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. E. Green, J.P. Accused was remanded for one week to appear at Auckland. Bail was refused.