INNOCENT WILLIS
■»' g < THREATENS TO DASH BRAINS OUT OF TRADUOEBS. PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Beoeived 12 52 a.m., July 27. Melbourne, July 27. Willis declined to be interviewed, but supplied a statement to tbe press, chiefly recounting the details of bis fight against extradition. The reason be gave was that he was an innocent man. He was traduced and slandered by. Parliament and the Ministry. He was arrested in a cowardly way, and otuelly thrust into a Kaffir prison. He was charged with a crime wbiob they knew was trivial and political. Ho rcmaiked that when he got olose to his detraotors he would dash the braiDS Out of some of thun.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1819, 27 July 1906, Page 2
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110INNOCENT WILLIS Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1819, 27 July 1906, Page 2
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