BOLT FROM THE CELLS
AFTER BREAKFAST CHASE. CIVILIANS CAPTURE PRISONER The police force in Christchurch is mopping its brow (says the Sun). It received a nasty shock and a great deal more, exercise than it considers necessary for its comfort.
The man who handed out the shock was Daniel Murray. Daniel’s height is five feet four and a bit, and his appearance does not suggest athletic prowess. But as someone has remarked before, appearances are deceptive. Murray bad been committed for trial at the Su [-rente Court on a charge of safeblowing.
In a somewhat varied career lie lias stood several trials, and he decided that he would side-step this one. After breakfast, he seized an i>|)pi>rtunir.y to slip past a constable in the cells and make for the open, and went down the drive at the back of the police station like lightning of the greased order. The policeman was big, but he was also very weighty, and not at all adapted for sprinting after breakfast.. Daniel darted into Montreal Street, and turned into Cashel Street, heading towards the public gardens. After him laboured the big constable, but lie was an also-started. As he bad left the police station, he had shouted an alarm, and so within a minnie seven policemen on bicycles pedalled frantically into 'Montreal Street.
Tbit their quarry and his immediate pursuer were out. of sight. They stopped irresolute. A detective from some distance down Montreal St. had witnessed the right tin’ll into Cashel St. and he pedalled up on a lady’s bicycle he had commandeered, and shouted directions. The hand of riders went off again, and they were there for the kill.
But. the brush did not go to them,
Two civilians intercepted Daniel by Park Terrace, edged him to a fence, and closed with him. Daniel was rather short of breath, and he considered be bad done enough for one morning, so heavily escorted, he returned to his little home away from home that the police had provided.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2682, 12 January 1924, Page 2
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334BOLT FROM THE CELLS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2682, 12 January 1924, Page 2
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