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Albany; Saturday.
The x jextradition( of, , Swanston. was,, success
fully 'complefced' yesterday morning.' The mail
train \va8 timed to ' leave the Central Btfltiqn, at 1
o'clbeh,/ hut/ in;, brder/'tb : rivbid/the / orbwd/! the
prisoner -was driven - to ' the Guildford station,
soihemiles/'bntsidelerth. ; Before. his departure!
in the -morning the prisoner made another of
his'ibg'enious attempts to tender His ; idehtifica- j
tioh difficult. ' It Will be remembered that/when!
seen by Mr Hirschfeldt in the lockup he wore a!
large pair of gold-rimmed spectacles, which Mr
HirSbhfeidt' deblares that! he hkd never Seen -him
use before, and which' Wfere of .'great assistance I
in ,4isguising his iddn!i|y/r''.'i.speel»cleB|
Swahsto'n had ohtained by representing,, that it
was impossible; for. him .to .read without them.
Yesterday morning a photographer made an., ap
plication-; to-.bei allowed to, tabel -his' .portrait,
and Swanston, after a good deal of i hesitation,
determined to grant the request. He applied,
therefore, for permission to shave, and a barber
waB sent for. ..Swapston'b first act was to direct
the barber to shave off his moustache, and the;
plan would doubtless have succeeded had not the!
barber, wjth the garrulity of his profession, i
called out— " What, take off your moustache !"|
and thud attracted the attention of the lockup'
keeper.-' . After this it was judged wiser not to !
let Swanston be shaved at all, and as a.conse-
quence'he commenced the journey with 'a three
days' growth of beard, which greatly;- intensified
his baggard'and unkempt appearance. At about
11 o'clock Detective Cawsey, with whom were
Inspector Waldook and Sergjant Farley, of ihe
West Australian police, . got quietly away from
Perth almost unobserved, and drove to Guild
ford. THe other members of the party, Mr
Hirschfeldt, . Constable Williams, and the
' Argus ' . special . representative, left . at one
o'clock fromthe Central station. A large crowd
had aBseihbled; to witness the departure,! and
were much' disappointed at not seeing S wanston.
Most of the sightseers took tickets to Guildford,
so that little was gained by the .. police man-
ceuvresJi'Swabstoh made his appearance smok
ing a cigar and wearing the same cynical smile
which" has' didtlhgUighed his public appearances
since he/Was. .arrested., "For a few moments be-,
fore the , carriage started he leaned back easily
against the Beat; - quietly puffing his cigar/ and
watching with in apparently aniused interest the
crowd who peered in through the windows. It
was noticeable that he - took great precautions to
hide £is 'handcuffs/ and he took the first; op
portunity of hinting that they should be taken
off. D'etdciive Cawsey .was ahbwing a n'ew.style
of American handcuff, and Swanston remarked,
' I don't sSe the use of ' those things unless a
man's .bbiStrbpuldus/'' They 'did' iibt hbndoiiff me
on the way ; down from. Southern rCross." The
subject was quietly dropped, much to Swanston's
irritation. Presently he drew a book from hiB
pocket and asked for his spectacles. There was
a search made," and' it was found that the spec
tacles had'been left: .behind. "Swanston was
greatly irritated, and. he favoured Detective
Cawsey- with an exceedingly unpleaaant. scowl,
and muttered, to himself once or twice, "-That's
done- for a rpufpose." Not long afterwardshe
complained -of. a headache. Mr Hirschfeldt of
fered himia. bottle of smelling-salts, which
Swanston ungraciously refused; " It's no use,"
he said pettishly. " The pains are in the back
of my head// The Kaffirs smashed my brains,
and I have ' hot been right since." I mention
these three; incidents because they seem to me
exceedingly valuable indications of> Swanston's
mental attijude. To the possession of the. spec
tacles ,both" he and the detectives attach great
importance, because the prisoner has yet to/ be
identified- by the tradesman who sold him, the!
cement and several other, important witnesses,' in j
Melbourne. The attempt to get rid of his
moustache is attributable to the same reason,
and the alleged, injury to his head. may possibly j
be heard of later on 'in supp'ott of a theory of
in'sahity. The railway journey was in every re
spect rbmarkable. . At eVery country station the
platform waB crowded with men, womon, and
childreta/ who struggled, to get a view of the pri
soner,- and assailed him with ioud cries of
" Murderer," " Jack the Ripper," and so on.
-At first the/ prisoner met these attacks with un
moved composure, but their constant repetition;
soon told on his nerves. At tho station before
Yofk ho, balled but nervoualy, " Stand-in front
of me. r Don! t let .them see me and afterwardBj
he said/ " That's Western Australia till ovor.|
They might wait till a man's proved guilty." So-
far the crowd had been sarcastic rather than-
violent. It was nob until York was reached that!
their attitude changed. The whole of the popula-|
tion/ior -miles- around Seomed.to have gatho'redi
on the platform, and long . iiefore the train drowj
up to the platform yells ahd execrations could;
be/heard. The blinds of tho carriages wero
drawn up, but these were of the flimsiest con-;
Btruction, and the police officers tried to concealj
the prisoner by standing up roiiud him. Before,
; the train stopped the ; footboards of the carriagoj
I on both' sides wore stormed, and dozens of hands
| were busy at every window tryiiig t'o pull down|
I the blind,, while those inside tried to resist tho;
jPtesaurei Every -moment one of the blinds,
i would go down with a crash, and th'oro would
be a momentary -free .fight before it could bo
closed again. .All the timo the people wore
I yelling out "Lynch him," "Murderer," "Co-;
I ward," " You can only kill dromon." A respect-/
I ablo iooking woman on the platform shrieked ;
I through the window, "Drag him out; pub him i
I on a pole; There's only a few of us here, . but
j we .can find a bullock team to tear him to
I pieces.'' i '
I At Beverley, whore there is a delay of half-an-.
I hour, and the carriages are changed, there was
I another riotous Bcene, but .the exoelient arrange-
j wonts of tho 'stationmaster, Mr J. G. Drake
I psknian, prevented /any' interference with tho
I prisoner, who was at onoo placed in a private
I toom in charge of two of tho local polico. The
I arowd amused thomsolyos with shouting, "Givo
I hitn some cement, the! murdoror." After leav-
| 'eg Bevorloy tho demonstrations at tho stations
| .'ipickly censed, hut the prisoner was evidently
I TPjy/berkoue/ He had been thorbughly fright'-:
I '".d'atf-Ybrkj'-ah'd the'Jibene''kt'i Beverley -hid
| #ot tended ' to " feUlia 'ay' dbii ab full
length on the seat, and dropped off into an un
easy sleep, whioh lasted for about two hours.
Suddenly he woke up with a start,- aiid asked
for some water. There was none in the oar-
riugo, but he was given a little brandy, whioh he
had no sooner swallowed then' he feli'dbwh in a
faint. Fortunately the train just then dreW up":
at a siding, and a little was obtainod'from tnb.
roadsido. For about a quarter of an hclilr the
efforts to rouse him were aontinued withodb sufi/
cess. Then he was apparently seized with'd fit.'5
four men in the compartment threw themselves
upon him, but although his arms were useless
his struggles were so desperate that it was
hardly possible to hold him. The fit was suc
ceeded by a collapse, and then the seizure was
renewed constantly with suoh violence that.the,
next hour and a half of the journey wasmotning
but . a continual struggle. When at 2 £ nil .thai
train arrived at Katanning, Swanston completely
collapsed, and fell into a steep which ISSted.iihtili
late in the morning, when he woke up, to every
body's astonishment, without showing the
slightest sign of exhaustion.' Looking at hie
wrists, which were badly swollen by his struggles'
with the handcuffs, he said, " Hulloo, -' whit's
this. I must have been doing something last,
night." Nobody answered, and no one .is, able
to tell whether the fits were really genviitlei or.
not. .
At Albany, which was reached at 8 ocldok
this morning, precautions were taken to avbij'e
disturbance, as a rumour had been circulatfid"
that a plan existed to seize the accused- and:
publicly lynoh him. Accdrdlngly, bef ore/ ireaph-
ing the tormiuus, the train drew up at the roali-
sido opposite the gaol, and Swanston was quickly,
placed under, lock and. key. Certainly if the
lynching rumour really had any truth in it the
crowd concealed their feelings wonderfully .wolL
for nobody either hooted or groaned. Ah' the'
gaol Swanston was again searched nnd hand
cuffed, a proceeding to whioh he Btrongly ob
jected. He deolared again that he was perfectly
innocent, and that there was no necessity to
handcuff Kim, "because He had not the fainteBt itl"
tention of trying to 'eBckpie. '
;!-vWhen in, prison-at .Albany Swam ton . readily
submitted 'to ,/e searched, /saying. that Hh liWed tb
give ;all .the . heipiinijbis power/ : When r being
searched- he .said .that: he, . expected (through, th'e
previous night that he waa " going to peg out."
After' being'1 placed -in;. .then lock-up at, Albany
'SwRiistdti had 'another tit, and two dootors were
'called !ih' fd 'attendihi. /; ' '' /a- -mi
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