JOKE ON POLICE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 153, 20 February 1932, Page 2

JOKE ON POLICE

WIRELESS PATROL SEARCHING FOR BURGLARS CHASES POLICE. MISLED BY WOMAN SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Eastern Suburbs wireless Patrol car had the unusual experience of chasing itself early this morning, all through the nervousness of a woman. Shortly before midnight two men, found in the backyard of the Olympia Laundry, Dowling-street, had been arrested by the Darlinghurst police for being on enclosed premises, and the police at first were inclined to believe the men's story. But Detective-Sergeant. Stinson, with Detective P. Ryan and the Eastern Suburbs wireless patrol, made investigations and learned that one man had been seen to climb a galvanised iron gate and open it. While a third man kept watch outside, sound heard suggested that an attempt was being made to break down a wooden door. In the yard, Detective-Sergeant Stinson found a long rake covered with coal-dust, with flakes of paint and varnish on one end. Varnish had been scraped from the door of the laundry and it was obvious that an attempt had been made to' break in. Having completed the investigations the wireless patrol was returning to the Darlinghurst Police Station when it met the Darlinghurst patrol car dashing down Dowling-street. Swung Round. "Break and enter" came the shout as the car flashed by. Immediately the wireless car was swung round, but the surprise of its occupants may be imagined when the car in front pulled up outside the laundry they had just left. A nervous resident had seen the police enter the yard of the laundry and, mistaking them for burglars, telephoned the Darlinghurst station.