ROY GOVERNOR CAUGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2591, 9 June 1923, Page 3

ROY GOVERNOR CAUGHT.

AFTER FIGHT WITH POLICE

SHORT BUT DESPERATE CAREER. Sydney, June 7. The police caught Roy Governor near Dubbo, after an exchange of Minis, bv which Governor and a policeman were wounded. Details of the arrest show that Sergeants Young and Payne, and a party of civilians, acting on a report that Governor had been seen some miles east of Mundooraii, went out and surprised him sitting behind a tin shelter. In reply to a demand to surrender the outlaw, who was armed with a rifle, hid behind a tree. Sergeant Young fired, and Governor replied. A further exchange of shots followed, one of Governor’s bullets wounding Sergeant Young in the arm and incapacitating him. The interchange of shots continued until a well-directed shot caught Governor in the back as he was running to another tree, and lie fell, severely wounded. Later he was removed to Dubbo. hospital, where it was found that the bullet had penetrated n. lung. His condition is serious.

Governor’s camp was found well stocked with Hour, sugar, mutton and ammunition, and had a set of toilet requisites. He told his captors that he got his bushranging ideas from books. Besides the hit in the arm, Sergeant Young has a nasty wound in the hip from the same bullet.