“MOCKING LAUGH”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 28

“MOCKING LAUGH”

FLYING SQUAD DUPED

A bobbed-haired young woman with two men as her companions was the central figure in a thrilling Flying Squad chase after alleged motor-car thieves late at night. A squad patrol in Brixton, Loudon, noticed two men and a young woman loitering near a car standing opposite a house on Brixton Hill. They drove toward the suspects, who jumped into the waiting car and made off swiftly in the direction of Streatham, the woman taking the wheel. The squad car set out in pursuit through Streatliam and Norbury toward Croydon and Purley. On the Croydon by-pass the two cars “opened out/* and au exciting hunt followed. Approaching the airdrome at Croydon the squad car gained on the fugitive, and got within hailing distance. The woman was called upon to stop. She slowed down and appeared to be stopping but suddenly waved her hand and laughed, and shot off at a tremendous speed, gaining a considerable distance. The chase continued until the airdrome was reached, but just as the squad car was about to overtake its quarry a car from the airdrome cut across the road. The squad car had to halt, and the car in front took fi£l advantage of the opportunity. It was immediately swung round on a road to the left, and. doubling back toward London, threw its pursuers off the scent. A second car was dispatched from Scotland Yard, but in vain. Later, the car driven by the woman was found abandoned in Tower Bridge Road. Inquiries revealed that it had been stolen.