DESPERADO SHOT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 March 1922, Page 5

DESPERADO SHOT.

NOT EXPECTED TO RECOVER.

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT MELBOURNE, March 27. 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 riffe to the level the boy fired a shotj -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 snear -Neerim Junction, and he fired twice. A fusilade was then fired at him, and he fell, shot between the ©yes. He is ;not expected to liv« until he reaches 'the hospital. Banks, Maple's associate, states that iihe 'latter told him he intended to parallel the worst exploits of the Australian Tmshrangers and would noi£ "be taken •alive.