BUSHRANGER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 7 June 1923, Page 7

BUSHRANGER.

> —♦ ARREST OF GOVERNOR. | CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE. , BY CAELE—PEES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT i . Received June 7, 10.55 a.m. ;: SYDNEY, June 7. ■ The police arrested Roy Governor .. near J>ubbo after an exchange of shots, i Governor and a policeman were wound-ed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. > ' Details of Governor's arrest show that Sergeants Young and Payne, with. , it party of civilians, acting on a report that Governor had been seen some ; miles east of Mundooran. went out and : surpvivod him sitting behind a tin shelter. In reply to a demand for sur- ; lender, the outlaw, who was armed I with a rifle, hid behind a. tree. Ser--1 geant Young fired and Governor re- ; plied. A further exchange of shots ' lollowed, one of Governor's bullets ; wounding; Yoi:ng in the arm and incapacitating him. The exchange ot* shots continued, until a well-directed ; shot caught Governor in the back as ! :he was running to another tree. Ho . fell severely wounded, and was later J removed to Dubbo Hospital, where it i was found that the bullet had pene- j trated his lung. His-condition is seri- ; ous. Governor's- camp was found i v.-e.H stocked with flour, sugar, mutton | and ammunition, and there was a. set j 'of toilet requisites. He told his cap- i tors that- he got his bushranging ideas from books. Besides the wound in his arm, Young received a nasty wound in tli© hip from the same bullet. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. J