NRS 880 Supreme Court Papers and Depositions, Supreme Court Sydney and on Circuit [9/7189] R V Samuel Freeman and Others [AF00301604] - Flipbook - Page 55
We then went on after that. Ryan went into a Money Order
Office, and chanzed a fifty pound note into gold.
I saw the
note. After that we returned, to Richardson Street and spent
the night there.
/as I saw some five pound. notes that night.
They were placed into a jar.
fireplace in the bedroom.
in.
The jar was placed behind the
I see the jar shown ie with notes
I never had the jar in gly possession. I placea the notes
in the jar illyself.
Ryan gave them to me. Wan placed the
jar behind the fireplace.
I never held.
thL3jr
Ryan held tW, jar and. I put the notes in it.
Ryan placed a revolver unaer his pillow.
in av
what night
I saw it. Next
14.wr-L,111.6 Ryan and I were in bed, and I heira some talking.
That was at about daybreak. I did not "Know at the time where
,he tL.141lig was.
I draw Ryan's attention to it.
He told me
it was nothing. Shortly afterwards we haara a banln4; at
the door, the police callea out, and ordered the door to be
opened..
They sang out "Open the door, the poli‘;.i are here".
Ryan jumped out of bed and lifted up the corner f the window
blind. He told me that "It was the tees."
He just stood
there.
He had the revolver in his hand. - that was the same
one as he had put under the pillow the night before. He had
it in his hand at the time he looked out of the window. He
44ade no remark to me .
I said "Don't shout, it is no use
naking thins any worse". Ryan never attempted to shoot.
He left the room.
I coula not say what room he went into.
The police then came in, and they arrested all that ware in
the /louse. I see the revolver shown me. I never had Ryan's
revolver in w hand, but it was this type of a revolver.
It was an automatic one.
It is the SLthi9 ind as the one he
had at Bank MamDars in Sydney. I was then taken away with
Ryan to the Detective Office in Lelbourne.
The women were
ten in one batch and the men in another batch. At the
Detective Office, Ryan and. I had a conversation.
me a lot of thins.
He told
we never had a conversation at that time
about telling the truth.
That was later (.4-4, when coming to
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