... CRIME From a table it is learnt that a high percentage of crimes made known to the police were cleared up, ranging from 1009, in Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency down to 639 for Malicious Injuries to Property. During 1956 crimes made Known to the ...

... CRIME. We have no crime in the shire. Unfortunately the statistics with the Talla Waterworks record convictions make the shire appear black when it is really crime-less. We have, of course, our drun ks and minor offences. In this connection we feel ...

... CRIME. The shire is particularly free from ctrious crime, and the lot of the police is a happy one, with, however, scant chance of promotion for capturing expert desperadoes. Long may such continue. We have, of course, our minor offences, but may compliment ...

... CRIME. The shire is particularly free from serious crime, and the lot of the police is a happy one, with, however, scant chance of promotion for capturing expert despradoes. Long may such continue. We have, of course, our minor offences, but may compliment ...

... Crime! YOU can never know how near you are to the Police Court and a fine. Take the case of a Denbolm man who appeared before llawick J.P. Court last Friday. He was charged with wheeling a bicycle on the public highway without a light and not keeping ...

... THE CRIMES. The suspicious circumstance which led to inquiry and the ultimate conviction of the women was the tact that Mrs Higgins did not acquaint her brother-in-law that her husband was dead nor with his illness. Her husband's brother was Patrick Higgins ...

... BERWICKSHIRE CRIME The Chief-Constable for the County of Berwick, in his report for 1944, states that durinit the year 669 crimes and olfences were dealt with. and. in connection with these, 42 persons were apprehended or cited. Out of the total, 284 ...

... DECREASE IN CRIME Chief Constable s Report ...

... CRIMES OF VIOLENCE An agitation is now being raised by an ex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham to * bring back birching” for crimes of violence and there is great deal to be said for the application to the lash to those who wantonly inflict pain for the sadistic ...

... CRIME IN PEEBLESSHIRE Major Sholto W. Douglas, C.8.E., D.5.0., Chief-Constable of Peeblesshire, in his annual report, reveals that there was a considerable decrease in crime in Peeblesshire last year. The number of crimes and offences reported was 367 ...

... Church and Nation Committee, deplored the marked increase in juvenile crime in Roxburghshire. He said that last year 118 persons under 17 years of age had been charged with various crimes, an increase of seven on the previous year. Of these cases, 22 were ...

... NO SERIOUS CRIME. In the Haugh in the evening, the games were patronised by all classes of the community to the number of several thousands. The rain of the night had softened the ground considerably, and this was of immense' advantage to the runners ...