POLICE CHASE STOLEN CAR

Southland Times, Issue 23498, 3 May 1938, Page 9

POLICE CHASE STOLEN CAR

(United Press Association) OAMARU, May 2. 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 65 miles an hour and the car went through the town at 50 miles an hour. The police requisitioned a taxi and pursued the car to Kakanui and found it on the side of the road with two passengers alongside. The accused made off but were overhauled. 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 ascertained that the car was stolen from Christchurch on Thursday. This morning Oswald Oliver Wahrlich, aged 23, an insurance agent of Christchurch, was charged in the Police Court with the conversion of a car valued at £3OO, also with the theft of 12 gallons of petrol at Timaru and failing to stop when signalled and with dangerous driving. For the theft of petrol he was fined £5 in default fourteen days, for dangerous driving he was fined £2O in default a month and on the conversion charge he was remanded to Christchurch.