STRENUOUS TRIP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22269, 23 May 1934, Page 10

STRENUOUS TRIP

ARREST IN BACK COUNTRY PRISONER BROUGHT TO DUNEDIN. After an excursion into the back country during which the party ex perienced something of the rigours usually only associated with the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Detective Sergeant Doyle arrived back in Dunedin yesterday morning, bringing with him a man who was arrested in the region of the Haast Pass. The man had been wanted by the police for some time in connection with a charge of misappropriation of lodge funds at Alexandra, and on May 12 Sergeant Doyle, accompanied by Constable Mannix, set out on horseback for an area , away beyond Lake Wanaka in which it was believed that the man was living. Flooded.rivers delayed the men, and this resulted in food running short. Even after the man had been arrested the troubles of the party were not over. On the return journey the prisoner fell when crossing a slip, which descended steeply for some 300 -feet into the lake, and the constable, in rescuing him, lost his own swag, which fell into the lake. Once the car, in which the final stage of the journey to Pembroke was to be made, was reached, it was thought that all trouble would be at an end, but even then bad luck pursued the party, for the brakes of the car refused to act, and the officers and their prisoner had a decidedly anxious drive. Pembroke was reached on Monday, and when the sergeant arrived in Dunedin yesterday morning lie was still showing the effects of the trip. It is understood that the arrested man will appear in the City Police Court this morning.