JUMP TO FREEDOM
SHOPLIFTER’S ACT
SENSATION IN WELLINGTON
fßy Telegraph —Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, April 2
Jumping from a shop verandah into the crowded thoroughfare, a man still-tied a busy throng of people inCuba Street, shortly be! ore eight o’clock last night.
A little earlier, the man had been detained by the mangement of a larfe department store, and accused of shoplifting. He had been taken upstairs to the manager’s office, and for a moment the manager turned his back on the alljgecl shoplifter, who mad a desperate dash for liberty by jumping out of the window, and on to the verandah, from which lie leaped down to the street and to freedom.
A large crowd immediately collected on the scene, and the police were called, but the man, who was lucky not to suffer injury when lie dropped to the street could not be found, but it is believed that his identity cfln life tl'ticed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1932, Page 5
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156JUMP TO FREEDOM Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1932, Page 5
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