Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1959-07-01
Arrested Third Time AS Result
no MPh Race I'm Stolen Car

wayne otdnley Oh near DalS'
was in the tolls of the law fol
the third time Monday nigh
after allesedly stealing a ney
1859 Ford and outdistancing of.
ficers in South and North Caro-
lima Saturday night despite foul
bullets pumped into the speed.
~ car.
N all began about 9 p. m. Sat.
urday when an employee of tn,
Loris Motor Sales reported I,
Loris police someone had driver
a new 1859 Galaxie Fairlan,
500 off the company lot.
Moments later Police CHIEF
Paul Ray Jones and Policemen
Rob Stevens and Dayton Shell.
ley saw a turquoise Car Of thai
description turn off Walnut St
o y the Tabor City road at &
high rate of speed and gave
ehAoa.
They were driving the towns
older police car, which cuts out
at 100 miles per hour, and were
soon outdistanced. Joining them
in the chase was Highway Pat
rolman Bazen.
The driver of the stolen vehi-
Gle, seeking to elude the offic-
erS turned off on a dirt road 70
the right of the Tabor road. one
portion Of which comes to q
dead end and another portion OF
which forms a loop leading back
to the Tabor road.
The officers followed but
seeing the car had taken the
loop, Chief Jones and Stevens
followed around the loop while
the patrol car, to which Shelley
had transferred. backed out and
T. ed down the Tabor Road in
an effort to cut off the speeding
car. However, at the intersec-
ton, they found they were about
three seconds too late and with
the fleeing car running well ov-
er 100 mph.
At the Tabor City bypass
Tabor City Police joined the
chase, cutting in between the
fleeing car and the highway pa
- car as-:- sto' 81 ca io....,.
e" the curbing, careened, but
continued on the bypass at
hr"nkncck speed.
Efforts to force the fleeing
car off the highway failed when.
each time tn" officers attempted
TO pull ahead on the side. the
driver edged over to force them
off the highway and continued
to race on down the left side OF
thS. highway rs speeds al times
exceeding 100 m.p.h., officers
said. They pumped four bullets
into the car. one hitting the
right rear bumper, one hitting
the trunk at the right rear corn
er, and two hitting the top rear
corner on the drivers side. None
Of the bullets entered the inter-
Tor of the automobile though
three pierced the outside shell
The car raced on to the Pre-
~" road and was lost when
Tabor Officers gave up the chase
when their car burned out.
Sunday morning. Loris police
said, Merl Stanley, father Of
Wayne Stanley, brought the
stolen car to police headquart-
erS and Wayne went to Finklea
to post $500 bond provided by
Clyde Coles. He was charged,
police said, with using an auto
mobile without the owners con-
Later Sunday he was arrested
by Tabor City police and charg-
ed with speeding in excess Of
100 miles per hour and failing
to heed a police siren and red
light
He posted $500 cash bond for
appearance in Mayors court
Monday night and did appear
the but walked out before his
csG' was called. He was arrested
again Monday night and this
time jailed on a charge of con-
tempt Of court.
M sanwhile, Loris police said,
federal authorities had been
hunting for him as a violator of
parole. He had recently been re-
leased from federal prison, on
parole, officers said, after ssrv-
ing a portion of a sentence for
inlRrstate transportation OF a
s.yen vehicle.
Loris police added that feder-
al parole authorities contacted
them Monday but did not make
clear whether they would seek
to get possession OF Stanley i'm
mediately or would wait the
outcome of a preliminary hear
ing at Tabor City, another at
Finklea, and q third st Lois,
where city police charged him
VIZ reckless operation of an
atitoroohiI,