PROMPT ACTION
ALERTNESS OF POLICE. SEQUEL TO ROBBERY. NIGHT PATROL’S CHASE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ■ Received January 17, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 16. A dozen police cars, on night patrol, picked ii)) Scotland . Yard’s broadcast, circulated immediately after a theft announcing a “smash and grab” raid in a fur shop in Eastham, describing a stolen saloon car in which the thieves were decamping. The police cars daslied to the shop and one challenged a saloon car in tlie neighbourhood. The driver accelerated to 70 miles per hour. With the police car in pursuit, it sped down the street for half a mile, attempted to swerve into a side street, skidded and turned round. The police car crashed into it and flung it against an electric standard. The police found the driver killed and two of the other occupants seriously injured. Five fur coats were in the car. The police chauffeur was slightly injured. • Lli i i
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19380117.2.98
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 7
Word Count
157PROMPT ACTION Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in