REVELLER'S ADVENTURE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20931, 22 July 1931, Page 9

REVELLER'S ADVENTURE.

UNWITTINGLY KIDNAPPED. TALE OF A MOTOR SMASH. Four people have been very much surprised by the latest case of a motor-car theft in Paris. They were the two thieves, a midnight reveller, and an antiquary. A commercial traveller named I'orteron set out .with his friend Bienvenu, a cabaret singer, to spend a joyous evening. Portcrou driving his own car. Thera were many halts at restaurants. Bienvenu so appreciated, the hospitality of his friend that when Porteron, having to make a call near the Gare St.. Lazare, left his friend alone in the car. for a few minutes, Bienvenu lapsed info slumber and slipped to the bottom of the car.

Bienvenu was astounded, on awaking, to find the car in motion. But there were two figures instead of one on ■the driving' seat. Having assured himself that lie was not seeing double, and that neither of the people in front resembled his friend, lie lowered the window and called lustily for help. The two men in front then simply jumped from the driving seat, leaving the car to go its own way at full speed. ■ The vehicle eventually crashed into the window of an antiquary's shop, still bearing the bewildered. Bienvenu, who- ; found himself sitting among a mass ot broken glass and objets d'art. Damage to the extent of £l2O was done to the antiquary's shop; the collision had not improved the condition oi the car; ana Bienvenu was taken to hospital with pains in the head which were to some extent caused by the smash. The police theory is that the two motor thieves attempted to steal the car, -j, believing it to be unoccupied, and thai _ ; they abandoned it- in panic when they found that they had unwittingly kidnapped a man.