MAN HUNT IN THE CITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 4

MAN HUNT IN THE CITY.

AN ELUSIVE FUGITIVE,-. *' During the past week the WeUinEtoa< Police have had a rather interesting! -chase after an elusive personage, wanted' on some thirty charges of theft of cari , ■ penters' tools. Although. the officers of the' la* have been hot upon his track all the time l; the fugitive -.60 far, haa displayed considerable ingenuity in evad», ing arrest, and ho .is still at large. On ' Sunday, in .Neivtown, ; . the police, were on his' heels all day. It Was a game of hide and seek, ,in which, at times, tho law officials even sighted their quarry,- whose daring and elusive Jack-in-the-box style,, however, made him master o! the situation. ..Features-of his'-, tactics were promiscuous drops from - . upper story windows, and his unceremoni- .'. : ous invasions into dwelling-houses—in the •., front and out the back-door—usually at the end of fifty-yard, dashes. On one.oc- ■ casion the police actually surrounded , a house in which they suspected their man to ! be'-in, and anticipations of a . '-- capture were strengthened when they noticed him make a surreptitious peep. . out. of an upstairs window. While one" officer stood .below, near . the. window-' / whence it was thought tho runaway - would drop, another dashed up the stairs... It.seemed certain that the elusive ona .... would be caught, but once more he did, the unexpected, and got clear away.. His ■ " effort included a flying leap from one.' building to the verandah of anotheri and then a drop of thirteen feet oh to tha pavement of the street. Shortly after-, wards, with night falling, the police dew sisted from the chase. *