STOLEN CAR RECOVERED

Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1929, Page 14

STOLEN CAR RECOVERED

FIRING OF REVOLVER SHOTS. A long pursuit, through the dark at 60 miles an hour, pistol play by an inspector of police, and a short, shaip chase on foot by three* constables, were preludes to the recovery of a stolen motor-car by the eastern suburbs wireless night patrol, in Sydney a f&w nights ago. The stolen car was the property of Mr. Herbert Wilson, of Randwick. When it was missed the police were commu-

nicated with. The message was picked up by the patrol, and ten minutes later the missing car was sighted in Pitt Street. The patrol at once gave chase, and the driver of the stolen car, scenting trouble, promptly “stepped on it,” and was quickly in George Street, and next into Harris Street. Both cars were now doing their best, but the police, car was the faster, and gradually gained till, when nearing F.' , Street, Inspector Reilly was near enough to shout an order to the fleeing driver to stop. But the order, thrice repeated, went unheeded, and the inspector drew his revolver. Three shots were fired. The fugitive, however, declined to be thus intimidated, and sped through the night, evolving tactics as he went/ At last he reached Bowman Street, near Glebe Island bridge. Into this thoroughfare he turned, and slowing down jumped and ran, with him his passenger, a young woman. Three policemen simultaneously leaped from the patrol car, and the chase was soon over. A constable secured the woman, and two other constables ran down the man.