JUMPED FROM TRAIN

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 109, 1 February 1935, Page 12

JUMPED FROM TRAIN

Wanted Man Still at Large

By Telegraph—Press Association. Ta uranga, January 31.

The man who jumped from an express into Hie Wairoa River on Tuesday night provided further excitement this morning.

It appears tliat after getting out of the river he was seen by Native children at the Main Road bridge. Later he called at a house near the Otumoetai School, close to Tauranga. He asked for food, which was given to him, and he then disappeared, ami was not seen again till this morning. The police searched all Tuesday night and yesterday.

At 4.30 this morning a resident in Fourth Avenue, Mr. Harry Teasey. hoard someone, endeavouring to start a car opposite his placed He thought that a neighbour. Mr. Bowen, was in difficulty, and on going outside recognised the wanted man, Herbert Maxfield. trying to start Mr. Bowen’s car, which lie had got out of the garage. Mr. Teasey went to his father's house to summon the police, and in the meantime the man made off. Another car nearby had also been interfered with, lint was locked. Tlie police, assisted by several residents. searched tlie scrub bordering the Waikai-eo Estuary, and at about 6.15 a.m. the man was seen on tlie shore of the estuary near the town boundary. He went into tlie scrub and was not seen again. At about 8 o’clock it was discovered that a two-seater car had gone from the garage of Miss Adams in Fifth Avenue. Its number is 25-002. and it is buff coloured. There were about throe gallons of petrol in the tank.