27 April 1973
Drie gevangenes ontsnap: Drie gevangenes het gister uit ’n werkspan van agt ontsnap nadat hulle die tydelike bewaarder wat oor hulle toesig gehou het, aangerand het. Die man, David Franke, is met ’n piksteel geslaan en met hoofbeserings bewusteloos in die Paarl se hospitaal opgeneem. Die voorval het op die plaas Libanon in Klein Drakenstein voorgekom. Die bandiete was inwoners van Klein Drakenstein Gevangenis. Hulle verkeer nog op vrye voet en die Paarlse polisie soek na hulle.
Ten Lions: Wilkie’s Circus has imported ten lions from a lion park in Britain. The animals gave their first performance in South Africa when the circus opened its season at Paarl recently.
Gesteelde motor slaan om: Geen noodlottige ongelukke het die afgelope Paasnaweek in Paarl plaasgevind nie. ’n Polisiewoordvoerder het die Paarl Post meegedeel dat heelwat misdade voorgekom het. Dit sluit in motordiefstal, inbrake en verkragtings. In een van die ongelukke was drie jeugdiges betrokke. Hulle is twee 15-jarige seuns en een seun van 13 jaar, wat in die landdroshof verskyn het op ’n aanklag dat hulle die kombi van ’n man in Kerkstraat, Noorder-Paarl, gesteel het.
Alleged theft of antiques: The theft of antiques from a historical building was alleged in the Paarl Magistrates’ Court when a 21-year-old man was charged with house-breaking and theft. It was alleged that he broke into the home of the late Mr. E. Solomon, the Cape art collector, and stole three rod-iron tables, a rod-iron standing lamp and three brass lamps.
Brothers knocked down by car: One schoolboy was fatally injured and another received serious injuries when a car collided with schoolchildren on the Hopefield-Malmesbury road opposite the farm Uitkyk. Two brothers, aged 11 and 9, were knocked down by the car and were brought to the Karl Bremer Hospital at Bellville. A senior police officer at Paarl told Paarl Post that the older brother had died in hospital. The two brothers lived on the farm, Wolwedans, near Hopefield.
