THREE MONTHS’ GAOL
FOR CAR CONVERTER WHO LED POLICE MERRY DANCE. BAD CASE OF ITS KIND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. When James Robert Sutherland concerted a car in the city he led the police a merry dance. He was chased by a police car for 25 miles, at times touching a speed of 80 miles an hour, before he. was arrested. These facts were revealed in the Magistrate’s Court today, when Sutherland, a soldier, aged 23, alias Pat Evans, was charged with converting a car. He was sentenced to three months’ hard labour by Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M. . The police said that at one stage of the chase Sutherland tried to crush the police car against a post. He missed other cars and pedestrians by inches. “It is one of the worst cases of this kind we have had for a long time,” said a police officer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1943, Page 4
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150THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1943, Page 4
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