OVER THE BORDER
Air Chase of Criminals
STORY OF AN ARREST FOR the first time in Australia, the police have used an airplane in the pursuit of criminals. The men being in the Northern Territory, the Queensland police could not take them till the need of water brought them back over the border.
By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright
Reed. 11.3 a,m. BRISBANE, To-day. JpOR several weeks thefts have been frequent in the Camooweal district, ending in the stealing of a valuable motor-car, in which the thieves headed for the Northern Territory. The police, realising that it was impossible to overtake them in another car, hired a plane, which flew from Cloncurry, picked up the police at Camooweal, and continued the pursuit. The police located four fugitives
camped over the border. They were ar rested at the point of the revolver, hut claimed that, being in the Territory the Queensland police had no jurisdiction. Knowing the men would have to return next morning over the Queensland border for water, the police released them, but rearrested them when they re-entered Queensland. It is the first occasion in Australia that a plane has been used to reach criminals.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 1
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197OVER THE BORDER Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 1
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