West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Friday 2 May 1947, page 15


FOUR ARRESTS AT MADURA. End to Nullarbor Police Search. Four young men for whom the police had been scouring the Nullarbor Plain in the vicinity of Madura station, 350 miles east of Norseman, for over a day, were arrested on the station property yesterday. They are all about 21 years of age and are believed to be Edward Bell, Thomas Henry Meddings, Ronald Charles O'Neil and Stanley David Shaw. They are alleged to have stolen a car from Norseman on Tuesday evening and to have headed towards South Australia. At Madura the car' broke down and when a posse of police who were giving chase caught up with the car on Wednesday the men had disappeared into the inhospitable surrounding country. Black-trackers joined the police in searching for the men and according to a telephone report received in Kalgoorlie yesterday by Inspector C. R. Gould, they were apprehended on the station property. The telephone was very indistinct and details could not be obtained as to what condition they were in.