Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.
Police squad
Police squad
Then sirens began to scream. First of all an ambulance raced down Manners Street around Pigeon Park, and into Dixon Street. This was followed 20 seconds later by a squad of police cars and motor cycles, all with sirens screaming. Between them, the ambulance, the cars and the motor cycles completely filled the southern end of Dixon Street. Needless to say all this dramatic activity attracted an even larger crowd. There was all the drama of a great tv crime spectacular as police and ambulance men forced their way into the heart of the crowd (which by now [unclear: filled] most of Pigeon Park and [unclear: w] flowing back onto the [unclear: sidewalk]
Most of the people couldn't [unclear: s] what was going on, but [unclear: stor] were being passed back [unclear: throu] the crowd that a most foul [unclear: murd] had been committed. The [unclear: forth] away the "body," the more [unclear: the] stories were exaggerated. [unclear: T] students realised that things [unclear: w] getting a little bit out of [unclear: ha] and began to move around [unclear: t] park telling people it was only capping stunt. But very few [unclear: peo] believed them. For the police [unclear: o] turn out an entire homicide [unclear: squ] so quickly this must be the [unclear: r] thing.