YOUNG DESPERADO.
FIRES TO KILL. ARMED PARTY SHOOTS HIM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 27, 11.15 pm. Melbourne, Last Night. It now transpires that the man shot by Maple at Neerim Junction was a returned soldier, George Woolstencroft. The latter sighted Maple taking cover behind a log, and rode at him. Swinging his rifle to the level, the boy fired a shot, shattering Woolstencroft’s rifle stock. Woolstencroft attempted to draw a revolver, but received a bullet in the shoulder. As he turned to gallop to cover he was shot through the lung.
In view of this the police had issued to them army rifles, and were ordered to shoot Maple on sight, as he was no longer regarded as a misguided youth, but a young desperado. To-day an armed party came upon him near Neerim Junction, and he fired twice. A fusilade was then fired at him. He fell, shot between the eyes. He is not expected to live until he reaches the hospital. Banks, Maple’s associate, states that the latter told him he intended to parallel the worst exploits of Australian bushrangers, and would not be taken alive.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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189YOUNG DESPERADO. Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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