A HUMAN "FOX"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 11

A HUMAN "FOX"

Our Own Correspondent.)

Hunted by Women for Sport

(From

NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Nearly 130 whooping hunting f ans galmiles over the countryside near Martinez, California,' to-day, after a human fox — a convict. There were no dogs, but thirty-five smartly-groomed women rode in the hunt and merrily rau the panting cfox" to earth after three and a half hours of "wonderful sport." Bluff Sheriff John Miller, of Contra Costa County, had the idea to entertain his sporting friends and ,to f demonstrate the ability of horsemen in tracking down prisoners should a real gaoibreak occur." This morning the sheriff released a twenty-four-year-old prisoner from Contra Costa Gaol, telling him he had two hours in which to run before the hunt started after him. The quarry, whose name the sheriff refused to reveal, dashed into the hills and hid in the underbrush. This afternoon Mr and Mrs Pat Shaw, who like other members of the hunt, carried a photograph of the convict, Tan him to earth. He was then allowed to join in a giant dinner given by the sheriff and generously awarded £2. 'It will help him on his way," said Sheriff Miller, "as his term is iust.ending." Everyone agreed that a fiae time. was 2LS& by all— exc.ejt th§ joxa