SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 22 August 1919, Page 4

SPORTING.

EXCITING CHASE. | . An exciting man hunt took place at Addington on Friday. At the end of the seventh race at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's, meeting a young fellow is alleged to have walked up to a payr ing-out window of the totalisator \ and I snatched £2O in bank-notes f rom i the ledge. He is then stated to have dodged in among the crowd, and made full speed for the Show Grounds adjoining. Inside the totalisator were Detective Abbott and Acting-Detective Bickcrdikc. They had, however, to traverse the full length of the building before reaching the egress door. They saw their quarry making for the Skow Ground fence, and in company with Mr McLbniiari, of the totalisator staff, set out in hot pursuit, while behind them panted the crowd. Over the high fence leapt the quarry with the agility of a practised hurdler, and following him in athletic maimer came Acting-Detective Bickcrdikc, with a few others in close attendance. .Meanwhile Detective Abbott had run round to sec that the suspect did not escape by the gates. For half an hour Acting-Detective Bickerdike chased his man round the Show i Grounds, inking- care that hedid not I scale the fence and escape in that man- ' ncr, and finally he ran him to earth, hiding among some manuka hurdles. The man was arrested. Earlier in the afternoon the two detectives arrested a man on the grounds upon a charge of forging a totalisator ticket by altering its number.