TRICKED POLICE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 96, 14 December 1931, Page 6

TRICKED POLICE

HANDCUFFED MAN MAKES ESCAPE FROM YAN SYDNEY, Thursday. Somewhere in Surrey Hills to-day a man of middle height is hiding with a pair of police handcuffs on his wrists, if he has not succeeded in lling them off. ishortly after midnight a man car'•ying a chaff bag was stopped in Crown- Street by Constable Bunnell. Suspicious of the contents of the sag, the constable sought enlightenment, but the suspect aimed a blow at the constable and ran. Bunnell soon overtook him and a •truggle took place, watched by a •rowd. The fight ended when the man's head hit the roadway and he lay still, annarentlv unconscious.

Bunnell placed the man in a taxiab and was driving towards Darling%nrst Pol'ce Station, when, in Oxford Street. he.neticed that the window of Evcrett's tailor's shop had been brolc^n. In the chaff bag he had found a *•01! of cloth. BimnMl got out to investigate and ■"t the snme time a pofice patrol car drew up alongside. The handcuffed man lay auite and still in the taxi. Meanwhile another man had been -ecured by a resident am he was leavmg the vicinity of -the burgled shop. While Brunnell and other police were interrogating the new suspect, the handcuffed man, quietly opened the handcuffed and supposedly dazed man, quietly opened the far-side door of the taxi and vanished.