... CRIME RISE Mr Murison referred to the rise in crime over the years and he did not think the seriousness of the position should be hidden. In 1948, serious crimes totalled 3.130 whereas in 1965 these had risen to 5.937. In 1966 the total was 5.578. ! The ...

... GHOULISH CRIME GIRL KIDNAPPED AND DISMEMBERED. The entire couqgy (says a Los Angelo' telegram) was tlffilled with sympathy an Saturday for the distressed psrenta of a 12-year-old girl named Marian Pukor, who was kidnapped from school for a ransom demanded ...

... PRISONS AND CRIME. The Commissioners of Prisons, in their third report, which has just been issued, state : The number of prisoners received during the past year in local prisons uuder sentence of the ordinary courts was 150,670, besides 5298 soldiers ...

... develops the crime, unless it produce a change in the construction of railway carriages. It is a well-authenticated fact that a startling novelty in fashion, or art, is not more eagerly imitated than anything new and sensational in crime. If it be possible ...

... TRACED CRIME Four youths are being reported for damaging a motor lorry by throwing stones at it within a yard at Randolph Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy. Another four youths are being reported for 11 cases of stealing from cars in the Kirkcaldy area. ...

... ENCOURAGING CRIME A sailor was brought up at police court the other day, and charged with alrikii,.' bis wife, burning her Bible, and kicking her° and their child “over the garden wall,” for which offences the Shallows present tin- bound him over to keep ...

... CRIME IN AMERICA. As the days advance crime seems to multiply. Murderous assaults, homicides, suicides are on the increase all over the country. Lawlessness has be. come a characteristic of the country. Many causes, no doubt, contribute to this. One of ...

... STATISTICS OF CRIME. The Clerk read tepo: - t - o - U — c - t:irue fur the quarter ending 30th September, as prepared by Mr Chalmers, rupetintendeut of police. The bumiier nf convictinns had been as follows : Assault, 10; assault and hre.ch of the peace ...

... CRIMES DOUBLED The proportion accounted for by coal fell from nearly 33 per cent to under 20 per cant over the period, while the contribution from nuclear power increased from under 5 per cent to nearly 16 per cent. ...

... CRIME THE COUNTY. The Chief-Constable (Captain Bremner) reported that there had been 230 convictions in tho county during the past month, being the largest number in any one month since the police force was instituted. explained that of these were co ...

... JUVENILE CRIME ANNUAL REPORT OF FIFE PROBATION OFFICER “Approved Schools Places of Last Resort During 1952, 355 boys and 23 girls in Fife admitted or w'ere found guilty of offences before the Juvenile Court of Fife. This was stated in the annual report ...

... CRIME SEPTEMBER. Chief Constable Gatherum reports that the number of crimes and offences reported or made known to the police during the above period was 81, and the number of persons apprehended or cited in connection therewith was 77. When compared ...