BOY OUTLAWS.
I j A FIGHT IN THE BUSH. LAD DEFIES ARMED PARTY. MELBOURNF., March 2fi. Two boys, Robert Banks and John Maple, each 16 years of age. escaped from reformatory homes in Castlcmaine and Royal Park. They broke into a store at Neerim, in South Gippsland, and stole rifles, ammunition, and gonds worth £1000. They then appeared before a farmers house in the same district early in the morning and fired twelve shots, the farmer's daughter narrowly escaping bcin_r shot. The police followed the boys, who tooic to the bush. During the chase there a ' constable received a bullet through his ' hat. 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 w making a t determined stand against forty police ' and practically every armed man in the district. While attempting to rush Maples i position a volunteer searcher was shot and fell from his horse, but. was only sligbtlv wounded. (A. and N.Z. I'able.i
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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