FOUND IN FLAMES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18900, 15 January 1927, Page 14

FOUND IN FLAMES.

♦— — A STOLEN CAR. [THE PRESS Sp«eUl SutlC*.] AUCKLAND, January 14. A two-Beater Bports model Kissell motor-car which was unlawfully removed from Symonds street some time after 9.30 last evening, ran off the Orakei road on the eastern Bide of the Orakei Basin, between 10 and 11 o'clock and burst into flames, and was almost completely destroyed. •fro details are known as to how the accident occurred, and no sign could be discovered of the occupants. The wheel track showed that the car, which was bound toward the city, travelled with one wheel on the grass for a distance of about 50 yards, before going over the steep bank. It then ran down a decline for about another 50 yards, crashing through a fence, and coming to rest close to a small creek, without having overturned on the way. The car burned for' about two hours and made a spectacular blaze. Shortly before 11 o'clock a taxicab driver made a thorough Bearch of the vicinity, but could find no traco of the occupants. Shortly before midnight another passing motorist stopped and heard a sound which he was positive was the groaning of an injured person. He made a hasty search with matches, and then went home' for a torch, returning a few minutes later to make an exhaustive survey of the Bpot, but without result. Th'e car was the property of lan Bannatyne Stewart, of Bemuera, and was valued at £SOO.