MURDER TRIAL VERDICT.
♦- CONSTABLE COMMENDED FOR HIS COURAGE. (UXITKD PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, NoAYJtber 25. James T. Collins was found guilty of murder, but insane. Thfe jury commended the bravery of Constable Sidney Chapman, the Judgo Saying his action was one of the pluckiest things he had ever read. [James Tliojnas Collins, a young soldier, shot dead two women and a girl in-a Kent wood last June. Collins left the rifle range at Hythe, carrying his rifle, and eame upon the women and girl, who had stopped their car and were apparently having some refreshment. He could not remember what happened, he said, but they were killed and no doubt he did it. Constable Chapman later met Collins, who threatened to shoot him. The constable reasoned with him and .followed and eventually arrested him, in spite of Collins's threat to kill him if lie persisted in following.]
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20715, 28 November 1932, Page 9
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