MADMAN’S ESCAPADE
RUNS AMOK IN CAR. (Australian Press Association.) BRISBANE, August 13. /■Running amok in a high powered racing car, which was reported rto have ‘been gtolen from a city showroom, and which,, contained also .'his. '.six-yeai’rold . daughter, a ' man drove at breack-neck speed among aeroplanes at Archerfield aerodrome, crashed into two ./PjaPeSj and broke through three fences before he left the. aerodrome, with , three cars in pursuit. - '*>> • f
Sir K'ingsford Smith’s Southern Cross .was one of the machines.menaced. Smith stpod guai’d with a. loaded rifle forcing . the driver itp sheer his car away from the Southern /Cross. The famous aviator led the subsequent chase after .the \yrecker, and though the cars Were .travelling sixty miles an hour and fired shot after .shot at the tyres the racd .continued untif ' the fugitive stopped, and-the man submitted quietly. Later William Elder was charged vfith being under suspicion of being insane. /.-A* •’>.-»•« • •’ ’■ •
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1932, Page 3
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