MOUNTAIN MAN HUNT

Southland Times, Issue 25343, 23 July 1935, Page 8

MOUNTAIN MAN HUNT

EXCITING CHASE IN WALES.

A thrilling 24-hour chase in which scores of pedestrians and farm labourers joined the police through town and woods, along railways and over mountains, after a man who was “wanted” by Welshpool police on suspicion of burglary and theft, ended when the man was captured on a Welsh mountain 1000 ft high.

Following reports of burglaries committed in the district a description was issued. A man answering the description was later seen in Newtown, 13 miles away, riding a bicycle. A hue and cry was raised, police and pedestrians joining in the chase through the main streets.

One police officer on a bicycle caught up with the thief, and as he was ab-nit to stop him the man threw an attache case at the constable’s bicycle, with the result that the officer was thrown from his machine.

The thief deserted his bicycle, and running along the fields he took to the mountains. All the police stations in Montgomeryshire and the borders of the Shropshire villages were warned, and an organized man-hut was the sequel. Every available police officer was pressed into service, and farm hands were requested to assist. A cordon was thrown round an area of about 20 miles, and all vehicles ori the main roads were stopped and searched, but with no result.

Early the next morning the huntbd man was seen by Inspector Brumwell on Welshpool Railway Station waiting for a train to Oswestry. When the man saw the inspector he jumped off the platform and running under waggons in the siding eluded his pursuers and took to the mountains again. Police from all district were recalled and a strong force was organized. There was a thrilling chase on the Long Mountain, 1000 ft high, where the chief .was captured.