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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 398, 1 August 1868, Page 2

The man Ritson, who shot at James Kinsella, the market inspector in Melbourne, was committed for trial, on the 20th. The Argus say :— While in the watchhouse, before he was removed to gaol, he expressed a wish to make a statement to the sergeant in charge, who, after cautioning him, took it down as follows : " I committed this act of shouting Kinsella for the two following reasons, viz. — first, because the prosecutor had grossly insulted me, as stated by Constable Rivers on the examination ; second, because I am the man who on the evening of the Protestaut Hall outrage fired the fatal shot which sent that unfortunate youth — the boy Cross — to his last account, and wishing to expiate the same, I resolved to commit a second act of the same nature, under cover of which I might suffer for both (the first still remaining a secret). But as the second attempt proved abortive I felt it necessary to expose the whole affair, which I now do and affix my signaturo to the same. Signed by me, James Rit.sok,"