EXCITING CHASE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26027, 15 December 1945, Page 8

EXCITING CHASE

WILD DASH THROUGH TOWNSHIP FUGITIVES STOPPED BY ARMED CONSTABLE (P.A.) GISBORNE, Dec. 14. Intercepted near Tikitiki and chased to Ruatoria at a speed exceeding 60 miles an hour, two -youths were stopped by the police at Waiapu bridge at 1.30 p.m. yesterday while driving a black sedan car which had been reported missing from Paeroa earlier* in the day. The two youths, who gave their names as Robert Stanley Juicestone and Robert Bruce Hill, both aged 18, appeared before a Justice of the Peace in Ruatoria and later charged with the unlawful conversion of a motor car and were remanded to Gisborne. It was stated that during a chase by police officers and a transport department inspector full bottles of beer were thrown from the fleeing car in an attempt to stop the pursuit. In its dash through townships in the Bay of Plenty the car, it was alleged, was driven at speeds of up to 70 miles an hour, and at one point it tore through a mob of cattle on a wild zig-zag course. The constable at Ruatoria, armed with a revolver, effectively blocked the bridge, forcing the fugitives to stop.