[“Interview with Bishop Gibney”, Daily News (Perth, WA), Tuesday 28 November 1899, page 4, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83061220]
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The Bishop was unable to visit the native mission of the French Trappist Order at Beagle Bay, but while at Roebourne he interviewed the condemned murderer Lillimara, and, finding him a man of remarkable intelligence, and possessing some knowledge of the precepts of Christianity, he administered to him the sacrament of baptism, and such rites as might afford him some consolation on the brink of his doom, and possibly alleviate his subsequent destiny. “We may call Lillimara a murderer,” enjoined the Bishop, “but if one of our blood suffered the same extreme penalty for the homicide of invaders on his country, we should characterise him as a patriot.”
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AB notes:
Gibney does not pull his punches!
