YOUNGER GOVERNOR ARRESTED.

Shannon News, 8 June 1923, Page 2

YOUNGER GOVERNOR ARRESTED.

EXCHANGES SHOTS WITH POLICE. SYDNEY, June 7. I The police arrested Roy Governor ( near Dubbo alter an exchange of shot*'- , Governor and 'a policeman were wounded. ‘ HOW THE FUGITIVE WAS CAUGHT. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) j SYDNEY, June 7. | Details of Governor’s arrekt show ; that Sergts. Young and Payne, with a party of civilians, acting on a report ■ that Governor had been seen some miles east of Munflooran, went out and sujrpristd hint sitting behind a tin shelter. In, reply to a demand for surrender the outlaw, who was armed with a rifle, thid behind a tree. Sergt. Young fired and Governor replied. A further exchange of shots followed, one of Governor's bullets wounding Youing in the arm and incapacitating him,. The interchange of shots continued and e eventually a bullet caught Governor in the. back as he was running to another tree. He fell severely wounded and was later removed to the Dubbo hospital where' it. was found the bullet had penetra,ted his lung. His condition is serious. Governor’s camp was found to be well stocked with flour, sugar, mutton, ammunition aind a. 'set. of toilet requisites. He told his captors he got his bushranging ideas from books. Besides a wound in: his arm Young received a nasty wound in the hip from the same bullet.

OLD SENSATION RECALLED. Five vear,s ago Detective-sergeant Lynch and the country police arrested Rov Governor and charged him with stealing. He was convicted and Sent to gaol. A few months ago he was liberated. Rov Governor is believed to be a son of Jimmy Governor, though it is sometimes stated that is a brother. His doings ar« a painful reminder of the mulrderp committed in 1900, when jimmy Governor, with others, broke out on a bushranging expedition. Nine persons were killed and others injured. in the end Jimrnv Governor was captured at. Bobbin Creek, in the New England country, and was hanged in 1901 for the Breelong murders. Joe, his brother, was shot dead. Earlier in. the chose Jack Underwood, one of the gang, was arrested and convicted. Jimmy Governor’s wife, who was a 'whiff' woman, and her son were secured hy the police. . The attack on the Mawbev family at Breelong on July 20, 1900, was a frightful affair. Jimmy Governor and others, resenting what they considered an insulting reference to Mrs Jimmy Governor, decided. o,n murder. Mawbey ha<l two houses on the sclection, one having been finished a few week> before the murders. He and Reggie, and one of his sons occupied the old house for the time being, while his wife and children and friends took un residence in the new building. About 10 on the night of the murders Mr Mawbey and Peggie and one ’of liis sons' were awakened by Jimmy Governor and his mates. Mawbev answered their call and promised to accede to their request to send themi some flour next day. About half-an-houir later his son Bertie aged 9, hammered a,t the door and called out. to his father-’ ‘Jimmy Governor is killing everyone at. the hoiate. ■Mawbev and his son put on a few' clothes, and grabbing rifles da shied a,ion" to the house. On the way the} fell over the dead body of Hilda Mawl*y (aged 10i). who, getting away from the attackers, ran to a tree a short distance from the hom-'e. Here she was caught, and battered to death. The body of Miss Kerz, a school teacher, living with the Maw;bey& wa> found not far from where Hilda s body wan found. . The bloodthirsty gang disappeared, and were next heard of a few days later near Gulgong, where at Sportsman’s Hollow they murdered Alexander ‘McKay, ai settler, and seriously wounded his wife. ~ ‘Travelling on to Peggy, 18 miles front Melrrnva:, they ishot. and hdled Mrs O’Brien, wife of a, settler, and her son. Mrs Benntett, a nurse, was also shot, but recovered. _ . At Wolar they murdered Kerin Fitzpatrick, a gedJHka pettier.