CHASE IN GLASGOW

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 129, 2 June 1937, Page 20

CHASE IN GLASGOW

C^R THIEF CRASHES

A YEAR OF. HARD LABOUR

(From "The Post's" Representative)

LONDON, April 10.

A man named Horace Seymour Sparrow, described as a New Zealander, has been sentenced to twelve months' hard. labour by th eGlasgow Sheriff Court. The charge was one of stealing a motor-car, of driving recklessly and dangerously, of having no' insurance policy, and of assaulting a police officer. A motor-car chase through Glasgow streets ended in the fugitive vehicle crashing through a fence, and led to the charge. Sparrow pleaded guilty.

Mr. J. D. Strathern, the ProcuratorFiscal, said that Sparrow had joined a ship as a seaman at Sydney, and on arrival in Scotland was discharged. Two days after that (March 15) he stole a motor-car from Hope Street, Glasgow, and later, while the car was standing at the traffic lights at Argyle Street and Jamaica Street, a detective-ser-geant jumped on the running-board to apprehend him. .The accused drove away, and the officer was beaten on the hands to make him let go. That did not succeed, and the door of the car was thrown open suddenly, throwing the sergeant into the street.

A police car which happened to be standing near gave chase and pursued the other car right through the south side of the city to Mount Florida, where at the junction of Clincart Road with Cathkinview Road the private car crashed and overturned. Sparrow was knocked unconscious, • but was not seriously hurt. The damage to the car was estimated at £100.

Louisette Lefevre, a temperamental Parisian woman>' quarrelled with her lover, closed her eyes and fired three shots at him. Then she gave herself up to the police for murder. But the "body," neighbours told the police, had gone away whistling. She was fined half-a-crown. ■