BOY BUSHRANGERS
FIGHT WITH POLICE A MODERN NED KELLY. Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, Sunday. Two bpys of 16, Robert Banks and John Maple, escaped from reformatory homes in Castlemain and Royal Park. Breaking into a store at Nccrim South, Gippslaud, they stole rifles, ammunition and goods worth £IOOO. They they appeared before a farmer’s house in the same district early in the morning, and fired lil shots, the farmer’s daughter narowly escaping. Police followed ,and the boys took to the bush, and during the chase a constable received a bullet through the hat.
Black trackers and armed volunteer parties joined in the search. Banks was captured, but Maples escaped in thick bush, where, although surrounded, he is making a, determined stand against 10 police and practically every armed man in the district. While attempting to rush Maples’ position, a volunteer ecarchcr was shot and fell from his horse, slightly wounded. —Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14625, 27 March 1922, Page 5
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