MAN-HUNT BY MOTOR-CAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9450, 21 May 1909, Page 7

MAN-HUNT BY MOTOR-CAR.

DETECTIVES “KIDNAP” AN ARMED EX-CONVICT.

A capture snob as might have been made in melodrama bat has rarely been recorded in actual life, was made by a party of detectives in a motor car near Sittingbourne. They were followingjon the track of a man named Walter Sylvester, alias Murray, said to be a desperate criminal, and “wanted” in connection with charges of burglary and attempted’murder. The man, who was believed to be armed, was said to be the same who on one occasion effected a remarkable escape from Dartmoor. , He eluded warders and police, as well as a party which dismounted from a train on spying him and gave chase ; and he just escaped capture by a man who bluffed”,, him 'by threatening to shoot him—with a broomstick in the dark—and made him hold his hands up in surrender. The detective did not, therefore go unprepared in the chase. They were armed, and after tracking the man to Greenwich they were on their way in a borrowed motor car, the owner of which was driving, to warn the police at Sittingbourne that the man might be expected there. Before they could reach that town, however, they came upon him on the road. The oar snddenly pulled up, and without a word of warning two detectives sprang on him, while a third covered him with a loaded revolved. In a few moments he was bundled into the car, handcuffed, and was on' his way to London, to becharged.