Immigration Authorities Recapture Hindu In Wild Chase Through 'Cliffe Quadrangle

Cambridge police, immigration officials, and a Hindu alien combined to excite 'Cliffe students out of exam period torpor with a 15-minute gun-point chase through the Annex yesterday.

Police reported last night that the alien was a former Worcester Polytechnical student, Telsi Vembu from Bombay, India. He has escaped from immigration officers at the International House opposite the Hotel Continental, and had run to Barnard Hall on the 'Cliffe campus.

The officers had momentarily cornered him in Barnard, but he escaped out of one door as they came in the other. The Oriental was finally nabbed in the third floor closet of a vacant house opposite Cabot Hall on Walker Street.

Police thought Vembu had gone to Radcliffe to contact one of his friends there to help him escape. He was living at the International House when the Immigration officials found him originally on Wednesday. They had returned to get his belongings when he escaped from them yesterday.

The Indian had been hiding in Barnard Hall for about half an hour when uniformed police and plainclothes men tracked him to the Annex. Upon seeing the law men, he took off through the building and then across the quadrangle toward Cabot Hall.

With guns drawn the officers followed him out of the building, ordering him to halt or they would shoot.

However, the small, wiry Oriental disappeared behind Cabot before the police could get into a position to fire. Vembu then raced behind Cabot with the police close behind. He ran into the three-story house at 123 Walker St. and hid in a top floor closet.

The Immigration men dragged him out at gunpoint, hustled him into a car, and took him to the Alien Retention Center to await deportation.

Head Immigration official Ralph Remington explained last night that the two officers, Joseph Geary and Walter C. Hogan, had taken Vembu back to the International House to pick up his clothes when he escaped.

Remington said that he had already been deported once to Canada.

The Indian, who was born in Germany, came to the United States in 1949, to attend Worcester Polytechnical Institute, but failed to maintain a student's status. He was then ordered deported for the first time.

Vembu refused to admit which Radcliffe students he knew.