Bombs, Bullets and Bread by Michael Kemp

Author:Michael Kemp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

However improbable it may have seemed to the skeptical members of the press, the Queensland police, or even the other passengers on the Aramac, when the ship arrived in Brisbane, Petrie found himself under arrest for attempted murder. His story about being safe in his cabin and then moving to the deck when he heard the explosion was not believed (it was thought that he had appeared too quickly on deck to have come from his cabin), and he soon found himself exposed to the tender mercies of the Brisbane police force. As he would later reveal, his initial time in custody was far from pleasant:

I objected to being kept in a solitary cell with no company other than the occasional visits of the warder, they put in my cell an alleged forger named Harris who informed me that he had forged the name of a Sydney firm for £350. This man was persistently worrying me to accept the reward, and I firmly believe was a detective. I was locked up in a separate and dismal cell for four weeks, not allowed to see anyone but the warder who was continually watching me, and fed on bread and water until I complained, when I was allowed one meal from a restaurant for which I paid for a fortnight, when the authorities or someone else, on my complaining paid for it. The other two meals consisted of bread and water.37

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