HECTIC CHASE OF SWORD--SWINGING MADMAN
MrELBOURNE. Waving a Japanese Samurai sword, a man chased a screaming- girl, dressed in pyjamas, down a city street at midnight. They raced past a police ear. From it a constahle fired a shot. The man with the sword stopped as the hullet whirred past his head. Woi'n out with fright and the run, the girl fainted face down on the roadway. Two constables grabbed the man and arrested him — they had been looking for him all night.
The girl was followed home by a young man when she came off d'uty as a railway porter. Her landlady told her to lock herself in her room. The man left, saying that he would get some hand grenades and blow the place up_. The landlady called the police. They searched the area and1 could not find the man. 4 After the police had left, the man returned to the house^ carrying a sword. Once again the police were called. Once again they found nothing. The girl undressed for bed. The landlady and three others in the house locked themselves in another room for safety. , Then they saw, from a window^the man vanishing round a corner. The girl, the landlady and the other three boarders came out from behind their locked doors and gathered at the front doorway. But the man scaled the back fence and climbed a tree near the girl's bedroom, still clutching his sword. He must have leapt about four feet from the tree on to a window-ledge, for he got into the girl's room while she was at the front door. Raising the sword above his head, the man rushed down the stairs into the front hall. , The five people ran screaming into the street and scattered in all difections. * The girl ran into Gisborne Street. The man was only three paces behind her, running with the sword held above his head, when Constahle Ducas and Bird arrived again. As the man sped past, Constahle Bird fired a shot and called on the man to surrender. Behind a tram shelter, the police found the scabbard and the sword. They were told it was taken from a dead Japanese shrgeant at Balikpapan. The man arrested, a former service- , man fi-om West Melboume, was ' charged with having entered a dwelling at night with intent to commit a felony.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5321, 6 February 1947, Page 7
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