Sergeant Gibbons and Constable Coleman arrested four boys at the Glebe, Sydney, recently under rather peculiar circumstances. The boys, who were wanted on charges of stealing, were seen luitciing about the Kennedy Street wharf at Johnstonc'.s Bay. The sergeant and the constable suddenly appeared upon the scene, and immediately on becoming aware of their presence the lads plunged headlong into the bay, striking the water with such violence that the rim of the straw hats which they wore wearing were torn from the crowns. The water at this particular spot is very deep, and there being no other place at which they could land without being captured by the police, the youngsters determined to make a bold bid for liberty and risk the probabilities of being attacked by a shark. With this object they remained swimming and floating about in the water a short distance from the wharf for 2J hours. Meantime the police waited patiently on the wharf. The youngest of the quartette, a boy named Phillis, was the first to surrender, and shortly afterwards his companions followed him to" the wharf, and were taken out of the water in a state of collapse.
