SHOT AT SIGHT
YOUTHFUL DESPERADO
MAPLE CAUGHT BY ARMED PARTY
(with riusl association,—coriMejT.)
MELBOURNE, 27th March,
It now transpires that the man shot by John Maple, one of the lads who escaped from reformatory homes and essayed buShranging at Neerim Junction, was a returned soldier named George Woolstencroft. He sighted Maple taking cover behind a log and rode at him. Swinging his rifle to the level, the boy fired, and shattared Wooltencroft's rifle stock. Woolstencroft attempted to draw his 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 polke had army rifles issued to them.; and were ordered to shoot Maple on sight, as he ; was no longer regarded a« a misguided youth, but a young desperado. To-day an armed party came upon him near Neerim Junction, and he fired twice. A fusillade was then fired at Maple, and he feli, shot between the eyes. He is not expected to live until he reaches hospital. Banks, Maple's associate, states that the latter told him he intended to parallel the worst exploits of Australian buehirangers, and would not be taken alive.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1922, Page 7
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197SHOT AT SIGHT Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1922, Page 7
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