PURSUERS ELUDED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1938, Page 9

PURSUERS ELUDED

DRIVER OF APPROPRIATED LORRY. TWO MOTOR CARS DAMAGED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. AUCKLAND. April 13. After forcing an entry into the vehicular ferry office on the waterfront at about 10 o’clock tonight, a man driving a stolen motor-lorry collided with two motor-cars and escaped into the darkness with pursuers jclose on his trail. None of the occupants of the cars was injured. The police had found no trace of the man at a late hour. The door of the ferry office was forced with an implement. The office was not ransacked and evidently the intruder was interrupted. After being interrupted in the office, the intruder evidently entered the stolen lorry and drove along the waterfront road in the direction of Mission Bay. Only a few yards along the waterfront road the lorry collided with a small car, but proceeded without stopping. The driver of the car stopped another motorist and followed the truck along the Strand. At the foot of Parnell rise the lorry collided violently with a small sedan car and, skidding across the road, came to rest over the footpath. The occupants of the pursuing car and several onlookers rushed up to seize the driver, but after a scuffle the lorry was driven off at high speed along the Strand. The driver of the car which had been struck first followed the truck to the reclamation near the vehicular ferry, where the lorry driver was seen to jump from the vehicle and disappear into the darkness. Efforts by his pursuers to follow him proved vain. The car which was struck on the waterfront road was not damaged and was able to be driven away. The second victim, however, was not so fortunate. The radiator and right front wheel were torn off and the body was extensively damaged.