EXCITING POLICE CHASE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 11

EXCITING POLICE CHASE

MISSING CAR PURSUED DRIVER HEAVILY FIXED THEFT OF PETROL (Pur Pi'ivsk Association.) OAMARU. this day. At 3.30 on Saturday morning, the Oamaru police were advised from Timaru that a motorist going south had stolen petrol. A watch was kept and a car came into Oamaru at a terrific speed. In an attempt to overtake it, the police car reached (55 miles an hour, • and the car went through the town at 50 miles an hour. The police requesitioned a taxi and pursued the car to Kakanui and found it on the side of the road and two passengers alongside it.

The passengers in the car, which had been taken from Christchurch, were taken to the police station where the driver’s identity was learned. The police learned that the car had been stolen from Christchurch oh Thursday. This morning Oswald Oliver Wahrlich, an insurance agent, of Christchurch, was charged in the Police Court with the conversion of a ca; valued at £3OO, with the theft of 12 gallons of petrol at Timaru, with failing to stop when signalled to do so. and with dangerous driving. For the theft of pe'trol, he was lined £5, in default 14 days’, for dangerous driving he was fined £2O, in default a month. On the conversion charge he was remanded to Christchurch.