A GIPPSLAND SENSATION.
ESCAPEES TAKE TO BUSH. AFTER STEALING FIREARMS. A DETERMINED STAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 26, 5.5 pm. Melbourne, March 26. Two boys, Robert Banks and John Maple, each sixteen years of age, escaped from reformatory homes in Castlemaine and Royal Park. At Neerim South, in Gippsland, they broke into a' store and stole rifles, ammunition and goods worth £lOOO, and then appeared before a farmer’s house in the same district early in the morning and fired twelve shots, the farmer’s daughter narrowly escaping being shot. The police followed the boys, who took to the bush. During the chase there a constable received a bullet through his hat. The police, black trackers and armed volunteer parties joined in the search. Banks was captured, but Maple escaped in the thick bush where, although surrounded, he is making a determined stand against forty police and practically every armed man in the district.
Wihile attempting to rush Maple’s position a volunteer searcher was shot and fell from his horse, but was only slightly wounded.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19220327.2.59
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
174A GIPPSLAND SENSATION. Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in