YOUTHFUL NED KELLY.
YOUNG MAPLE SHOT DOWN.
DARING DESPERADO.
Melbourne, March 27.
It now transpires that the man shot by the boy Maple at Neerim Junction Gippsland was a returned soldier named George Woolstencroft. The latter sighted Maple taking cover behind a log and rode at him. Swinging his rille 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 a 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. and he fell, shot between the eyes. He is not expected to live until he readies 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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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 92, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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185YOUTHFUL NED KELLY. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 92, 28 March 1922, Page 5
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