EXCITING CHASE.
SMART CAPTURE BY POLICE. Oaniaru, Last Night. A smart arrest was effected in the vicinity of Oaniaru late this afternoon. Word was received to-day by the local police from Dunedin that a man named Edward Stephen Laws, alias Thomas Hunter, who was wanted for the theft of a Savings Bank book and forging the owner’s name on withdrawal slips for £76, was believed to he journeying northwards. ,
Shortly before 5 o’clock this afternoon, Constable Abel noticed- a Dunedin taxi speeding past the station, hound north. The constable gave chase in an Oaniaru taxi, overlook the suspect eight miles out of town, and found the man wanted.
In the course of being searched, I lie accused bolted over a fenee, but tlie laxi man and the constable gave cha-c in the car, which was driven clean through a hedge. Laws was quickly recaptured and lodged in the Oaniaru look-up.
The accused is twenty-three years of age, and lias a previous record extending over thirteen years. He was out on probation for a theft committed in Ifilfl, and at one time was in Burnham and later at the Borstal Institute, Invercargill.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2412, 1 April 1922, Page 2
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191EXCITING CHASE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2412, 1 April 1922, Page 2
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