AEROPLANE v. CAR
CRIMINALS CHASED IN AUSTRALIA Brisbane, January 4. For several weeks thefts have been frequent in the Camooweal district, culminating 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 an aeroplane, which flew from Cloncurry and picked up the police at Camooweal. They continued the pursuit and located the" four fugitives, who were camped over the border. , The fugitives were arrested at the point of the revolver, but claimed that, being in the Territory, Queensland police had no jurisdiction. The police, knowing that the men would have to return next morning over the Queensland border for water, released them, but rearrested them when they returned to Queensland. '"This is the first occasion in Australia that an aeroplane has been used go reach
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 9
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145AEROPLANE v. CAR Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 82, 5 January 1928, Page 9
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