BURGLAR DISTURBED.

Wairarapa Age, 2 July 1936, Page 5

BURGLAR DISTURBED.

ESCAPE IN STOLEN MOTOR CAE. AFTER TRYING TO RUN DOWN CONSTABLE. INVERCARGILL, July 1. In the early hours of this morning, a burglar was disturbed while in the act of breaking into the East Gore store of Messrs Mac Gibbon and Company, the burglar escaping in a car which was recognised as that reported from Invercargill as having been stolen from Otatara on Tuesday evening. The driver of the car charged the constable who was attempting to intercept his flight. A constable visited the East Gore service station and flashed his torch around to ascertain if all was in order. There appeared to be nothing wrong, but the constable’s attention was attracted by a motor car standing outside the premises of Messrs MacGibbon and Company across the road. He went over to investigate, but the intruder had apparently been warned by the constable’s investigafions at the service station and he was already in the car. As the constable approached he started up the car and charged straight at the constable, who was forced to jump out of the way and the car disappeared across the bridge. An inspection of the store revealed that the front door had been forced with a tyre lever or other similar instrument, but nothing appeared to have been taken.—(P.A.)