EXCITING CHASE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 281, 30 November 1935, Page 9

EXCITING CHASE

ALLEGED MOTOR THIEF CAPTURED BY OWNER INCIDENT AT AUCKLAND ( Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND, Nov. 29. After a brief but exciting chase in Newmarket, a man suspected of converting a new motor-car tu his own use was overtaken by the owner of the car in the Domain to-night and held until the police arrived. It was by the merest chance that the car was seen to move off from where the owner, Air. \V. N. AlcCallum, had parked it outside his residence. “1 arrived home from Dargaville shortly before 7 and had carried some of my bags upstairs,” Mr AlcCallum said. “1 did not Jock the car, a new model, because I intended to go back for the rest of my bags. About three minutes after 1 entered the flat my wife looked out a window and called out, ‘There’s a man trying to get away with the car’.” The car was already moving when Mr. AlcCallum looked out irom a second-storey window. He called to the man, who stopped the car, got out and replied: “It’s all right.” He then commenced to walk toward Newmarket. Air AlcCallum called to his wife to telephone the pulice and promptly ran downstairs to try to overtake the man. “When he saw me following he commenced to run down Carlton Gore Road,” Air. AlcCallum. said. “I followed in the car and saw him turn in at the lower entrance to the Domain. Hoping to head him-off I drove along George Street and then left the car, scrambling up the bank among the trees in tne Domain. He was running about 100 yards ahead of me through the trees and towards the Aluseum. As soon as he caught sight of me he made some pace but I managed to catch him. He did not struggle once he had been overt; ken and I had told him that the police were on their way. I brought the man back into Carlton Gore Road to await the police.” In response to Airs. McCallum’s telephone message a detective was quickly on the scene in a police car. He took charge of the man, who was later lodged in the cells. He will appear in the Police Court charged with converting; a car to his own use.