THE BLACK FIENDS OF MEW SOUTH WALES.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 116, 13 November 1900, Page 2

THE BLACK FIENDS OF MEW SOUTH WALES.

HOW-JIMMI GOVERNOR WAS CAPTURED. HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS CHIMES. Both the aboriginal outlaws who have terrorised some oi' the inland districts of New -South Wales since Ju.lv last have now been run. down. Jimmy Governor, as our cable news recently informed i s, was surrounded and captured by settles ou tho 27th ult., after he had been seriously wounded, and his brother Joe was shot dead, also by civilians, on the 31st. Files now to hand" show that the place where- Jimmy Governor was run >Lc earth was at Bobin Creek, eighteen, miles from Wingham..' John Wallace' 9 camp i.i Bobin'was robbed, so he got up a parts' tio search for the outlaw, and found what was believed to be the fugitive camped in the scrub. ' The place was surounded and watched by a party all night. At daylight, 'as soon as Jimmy Governor moved, Thomas Green called upon ! v m t£ surrender. Tho outlaw ' at om.c jumped up and rushed over the bank < f • the creek and tried to escape. . His pursuers rushed up and several fired. One shot took effect and Jimmy fell wound 3d. His pursuers then captured him. Jimmy did' not speak, but glared savage! v Somo of the party watched him. The party consisted of Thomas Green, Toliu Wallace, Alexander Cameron, <Jo cm M'Pherson, Thomas Moore, and vome others, being all local men. Dr. Kelly examined Jimmy Governor, and" found that he was not seriously wounded. He found about forty pellets in. his legs and back, and some^ in the left arm and side and between t!:e shoulders, but they were little moro than skin deep. Governor "wag very weak, and stated that he had had very little fod but honey for over two weeks. He volt Dr. Kelly that Byei's, shot him twice, ' once ira the mouth,' the bullet going through his cheek, knocking out five teeth — aad once in the left buttock as he. ran away. Be said the Mawbeys brought the trouble upon th'ettiselves by, always jeering at- l.is wife for marrying a .blackfellow. He had only his rifle and three cartridges when captured. Governor talked 'reely to any one. He shook Green, Wallace, Cameron, Moore,' and others of the o.ipturing party by the hands when saving good-bye at the lock-up. He said thej were the pluckiest men he ever met,, especially Green, who rushed at him, firing a gun full of pellets into him, thus crippling him." • THE PRISONER INTERVIEWED In the course of one interview with a .Sydney Morning Herald reporter, in which he Spoke with remarkable frankness about his" crimes, and the details c f . the chase, Jimmy Governor gave the idlowing account of the genesis of his bu .11ranging pai'ty: — "While we were working at Mawbe,r'.i Jacky Underwood, Joe, myself, and Mrs. Governor were talking about bushranging at night after our work was done. I told them that if I was a bushranger I supposed I would take some catching. . Jackv Underwood said, 'Oh, u,o, Jimmy could not be a rider through, tho scrub like me; you would have to follow.' Joe said, Tm as good as any of you.' I said to them, 'I don't crack myself about being any good ; but our haps I could do as well as any of you.' Underwood said, 'What do you say if wo go bushranging?' I said, 'I don't care. Then Underwood said, 'I don't cm re either ; I shot a blackfellow at Queensland. You had better come with me ' Two or three days before the Mawb^y business I broke up our plates and snacers and everything in nvy o^vn camo, and was to go next day, but I "ida 1. go. My missus. Jacky Underwood, and Joo laughed at the idea of bushranging. They said to me, 'You are not game to go.' I said, .'That is forcing me to j,o.' Joe and Jack Underwood went away ;o Dubbo next day and did not come back for eight ,or nine days. They brought Jacky Porter back, and the boy, my nephew. " Dining that time they hud been talking about bushranging every day. I had' never read any of Deadwood Dick's novels or any books about bushranging till we came out that night "My. wife and me had a word or two about cooking, and one thins? and an other about the camp. Everything I said to her she said, 'Pooh, that's nothing.' With that me and Underwood cleared out. I thought I might as well die, so , the Mawbey murders, were committed. We left Mawbey 's and went back to camp, I saying to Joe, 'Now, you bushranging blower, come with me or I will tomahawk you, or you will tomahawk me. Are you coming?' He said 'Yes.' So I roused them up 'in the camp and told them all to get out. We then ,all cleared and went, about half a 1 mile into a pine scrub. In the morning we got up and talked, about the road we were going to strike to MundojfF.n, Merrygoon, and Digibar, then to Leadville and Wollar. With that my mis sus struck for Dubbo, and Jacky Porter and the boy came behind us. 'We ent on from there through Mundooran, s>nci thence to Merrygoen, where the police fired at us. Then me and Joe parted from Underwpod, and we went towards Cobberah. There we 'shook' a ?re> horse and rode him to Gulgong. We, stayed at Chai-ley Wade's that nigur Next day we left for Wollar, and , came, to M'Koy's. My brother killed old M'Kay with tho intention of having his l'ifle. With that I struck the girl with a stone. She Kuid, 'The Lord have -mercy upon.me.'. We then let her' go. I ask cd her where tho horse, saddle, and bridlo Were; Mrs. M'Ka.y brought out tho Middle an A bridle, and told me the lim'ku was in Uw paddock. 'We caught thef lior*G 'and wont over the hill past houkrefn and Byter's place, nud caught amiihm' bay horn© on Reedy Creek, and I'udit levm thiti« to Crowe. We" broke inU> li, Wine Utei'o. •'•«,••.> •• -*• "From NSvUte's wo wont to' O'Brien's, iwivJiig uwv horsus in the bush. We went up Ui OlU'mn'a \ called at' the door. I niiM 'Uoqd iluy.' Who saicl^ 'Good day, what 1b if/ you want?' I scud 'YfcuJspeak civil { KiUTOiiilw or I will shoot you.' With that f fired ; wo then, loft to 'go down, Uw Uoulbiirii Rivoi 1 to : Camey; We wliol a hoj'H« there ihat night.. 'The river wuh up, und we swam the horses* ftoio^H it, iwd Hlept in the Wollar baddauk». Next morning wo left for Tommy HugbiixV. Wo wnk'iied and he went out of hJK placu down to the paddock with au axe on lii** buck. So wo slipped in and took his rillo and ammunition and mudo towards tho Wollar town. We alept in Mauroy-H paddock that night. Next morning wo got up and went over to Fiizpatriok's. With that I said to Joe, 'Vfou yet behind that stump, and I'll go round t-he back and call him.' I said to Joe, 'If he has got a rifle you shoot him. ; if he has nothing go up to him.' He came out with his rifle, and Joo shot him from behind the stump. Young Fitzpatrick, then arrived, and we made for the mountains." *Jimmy Governor is to be tried in Sydney on the 19th inst-., and as is usual, the Government has given him the advantage of legal assistance, Mr. E. A. Roberts having been nsked to undertake the defence, As the criminal stands tho self-contessed participant in nine murders, and the acknowledged leader of tho blood-spilling campaign, the defence must needs be the most" formal proceeding, and all Mr. Roberts can do is to see that the forms of law are duly obsorvod. According to the accounts sent 'to tho press by the captors, eight persons aro

entitled to shore in the £1000 reward offered for the capture of Jimmy Governor. John Wallace, Alex. Cameron, Thomas Green, W. Macpherson, Thomas Moore, sen., Thomas Moore, jun. William Moore, and Alfred Moove, sons of T. Moore, sen. Tho Moore family, therefore, &tand a chance of making £500 out of their nighfs work, and no one will grudge them the money. Rewards for the capture of Jacky Underwood have been cif'-'ributed. Mr. W. <•:. Shaw gets £15, Mrs. Shaw £5, and Mr. John Seabrook £10.