COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
SYDNEY, Feb. 26. Batson pleaded not guilty. He was committed for trial on April 23, on charges of shooting at Police Sergeant O’Connor and Morris. Harriet Bryant gave evidence that when returning home with her sister on the night of Feb. 10th.. Batson stopped them at the gate of thenhouse. Ho said: “I am a bushranger. I have done three, and there is still another one to get.” After keeping them at the gate for three hours they persuaded him to go to the farm house, where he stayed all night. In the morning Sergeants O’Connor and Morris appeared, while Batson was escap-
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 3
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106COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1924, Page 3
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