THE CONSTABLE AND HIS QUARRY.
NIGHT: STREETf SCENE;, : ; : :;; : ,-f; ■.'• ■ At a little before midnight on Satn>';': day ,the few people who' were then'pass-';.' ing' : along Willis :Street ; : witnessed;-,a .-;.; quietly-conducted ;. ; . man-hunt. ■>. ; ;[ The: ;:- quarry,. who" : was an 'excellent'runner,• , ) made at' high -speed for : the junction f. of:' Street:: with;;the; Quay,, and ,^;>'' a constable : : plodded steadily 1 in- pur-;-;, suit about''eighty yards! in the rear. .Itwas" a stern.■ chase'/- and seemed likely .. to' be a" long.one': but>the .'proverbial, .': long arm of "the law; proved equal', to the-occasion. J -A;-, second/, constable, ■;.;.■ handily:: placed -at lithe:; :end, ; of ./Willis..;';.: Street, ■.intercepted 1 : the: fugitive ,just!;a3 ;!;. he turned into the-Quay. r He;wiU ; ar*;.: ; I pear in-,Court, this.iweek.:;,. It'is,;>ak;::; 'leged.that he wantonly'upset a; hum--.... j ber'v of '-receptacles ; for;, city ; rubbish.. /- ';\
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 913, 5 September 1910, Page 6
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125THE CONSTABLE AND HIS QUARRY. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 913, 5 September 1910, Page 6
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