Old police report

Crime reports: 1899

I came across the Coombes case in an old newspaper.

Case report filed on November 22, 1963, concerning the murder of J. D. Tippit. It includes a description of Lee Harvey Oswald, a summary of the case, and a list of witnesses.

A Fort Worth Police Missing Persons Report for Karen Lynn Bennett, also known as "Little Lynn," one of Jack Ruby's strippers. She was reported missing by her grandmother on 02/02/1964, having last seen Lynn on 01/10/1964.

What heightens the mystery around the death of Marilyn is the fact that when the toxicology tests were conducted by America’s renowned autopsy expert Dr.Thomas Noguchi,the tests were only confined to her liver..When Dr.Noguchi asked for more organs for examination,he was promptly told by the Police “they were destroyed”However,the question that still remains unanswered today is-Why in the first case were the other body organs of Marilyn were asked for by Dr.Noguchi how & why were they…

Metropolitan Police Report from Buckingham Palace station dated 3 October 1917 detailing in manuscript, on a printed form, the discovery of a shell case on 3 October 1917 in the lake in the Buckingham Palace garden. The report reads:SirAt 3.30pm 3rd October Mr J Cardy an assistant gardener found in the lake in garden of Buckingham Palace a large piece of shell case marked HNT 3, 2.0 + 5 cwt + 12 + 13 PD.In all probability the shell was fired during an Air Raid.Piece of shell case...

Prohibition meant more work for police – here’s a sample of what they had to deal with.

The hit on Maggadino Family Soldier Albert Agueci

On this day 21 July 1893 the career of New Zealand’s very own highwayman – dubbed the Taranaki Turpin – ended with his arrest in the Criterion Hotel in New Plymouth. Late that night Robert Wallath presented a revolver to the publican’s wife. He was wrestled to the ground and captured by two patrons after a “severe struggle”, according to the 1893 Police Gazette. Wallath would have been just another robber were it not for his trademark highwayman costume. According to a newspaper report he…

While it is undoubtedly so today, crime has been a part of everyday life in Los Angeles for more than a century. Scholars in numerous disciplines might use crime-related statistics when examining a variety of social, political, and economic trends, historical events, or notable individuals. Today, websites like the Los Angeles Police Department's Crime Mapping page let police officers and individual citizens find crime-related statistics, or search for reported crimes by type, date range…

Police Magistrate's Court Specimen Summons c1901 | oldsouthendian | Flickr

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The Queensland police force employed its first female policewomen on 16 March 1931. The two women, chosen from 60 applicants, were initially appointed for a 12-month probationary period and were stationed at Roma Street, Brisbane. They came from very different backgrounds. Miss Ellen O’Donnell was 35 years old when she was appointed. She lived in

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Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said. Read details of the incident in the arrest affidavit.

The new owner of the old Trout's building in Oildale has filed a theft report with the Bakersfield Police Department regarding the missing Trout's sign.

The term police report is interchanged with other terms such as: Arrest Report, Incident Report, Offense/Incident Reports, I/R, O/I, Police Summary and many others. These reports are written for many different reasons, some of which the regular citizen would not know. The most common reason a report is written is in relation to a crime…