WILD CHASE
THROUGH WELLINGTON STREETS. POLICE AFTER CAR CONVERTERS. 'By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A seventy-mile-an-hour chase through city streets, ending in the arrest of two men alleged to have converted to their own use the car in which they were travelling, was described by Detective-Sergeant Doyle in the Magistrate’s Court when Harold Beggs, aged 34, a labourer and Conrad Thomas Neiling, aged 27, also a labourer, appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., charged with the unlawful conversion at Petone of a car valued at £260. The loss of the car was reported to' the police and Detective Alty and two policemen went opt in a p'olice car to the Hutt Road and followed what they suspected to be the stolen car into the city, where wild driving through the streets followed. The car was eventually abandoned in Clyde Quay, where the accused were arrested. A remand on the susbsantial bail of £l5O each was granted, the police stating that they had further investigations to make.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 6
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168WILD CHASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 6
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