POLICE USE 'PLANES
CHASE MOTOR, CAR THIEVES
GOOD FORESIGHT BY POLICE SECURES ARREST BRISBANE, Jan. 4. For several weeks thefts have been frequent in the Camoowoal 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 an aeroplane which flew from Cloneurry, picked up the police at C'amooweal and continued in pursuit. The four fugitives were found encamped over the border. They were arrested at, the point of the revolver, hut claimed that as they were in the Northern Territory the Queensland police, had no jurisdiction. Knowing that the men would have to return next morning over the Queensland border for water, the police released them, but re-arrested them when they re-entered Queensland.
This is the first occasion in Australia on which an lias been used to reach criminals—U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 3
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152POLICE USE 'PLANES Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 3
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