SHOTS IN A CHASE
SEVENTY MILES AW, HOUR l ' m : \'-:i • ""T7 < STOLEN MOTOR-CYCLE • • " < A, PQ,lic© motor-cycle and side-car, manned by Constables Ferguson arid Cunningham, were Mlding up motor- - cars'in “'Racecourse road, Flemingtoii, ' aMujt'2.2oß.ih. im November 6, when a mail riciin-- a motor-cycle approached the' police trap. Suddenly he swung up a side street and the police gave chase. The fugitive speeded up to 70 miles an hour and led the police through a number of side streets. I Several times the police machine drew ( leyel and Constable Ferguson, present- , irig 'ft Tiistol, ordered the man to stop. , F&jly pressed the pistol into the man's rite, but the fugitive swerved • sharply rind partly forced the police machine on t 6 a road plantation, nearly , overtlirnirig it. By the time it was thp; plan had a big lead, arid, still drivjpg at 65 or 70 miles an hour, ; continued along the busy Royal parade * j&yeraj 'times ' Constable Ferguson 1 fipra*shots river'the mail’s head, but ■ syltn no effect. Eventually the man | • was stopped by the closed railway gates - iii Brunswick road, but jumped off the machine anfl ran rip a'side street. Con- [ j si4bW"® , tegrison followed'on foot and j : fired several' more' shots, but the. man 1 escaped. The motor-cycle was found to | ‘ have j,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 11
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