LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Sentence at Adelaide
Adelaide, February 11. Arthur Nelson Durrant, aged who was arrested on September 30 and charged with having murdered his employer, Mr. Hugh Forbes, farmer, a ß ed 45 Mrs. Forbes, aged 40, and theii daughter Joyce, aged 16 (who weie found burled in a manure heap on Forbes’s farm), was ® en * en “ d 1 ? l , 0 „„ 1 ?' prisonment for life with hard laboui. Durrant had pleaded guilty to manslaughter when charged with having murdered Joyce Forbes. Durrant was found not guilty on the ground of insanity when charged some weeks ago with having murdered Mr. Hugh Forbes, father of Joyce.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 119, 13 February 1936, Page 10
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105LIFE IMPRISONMENT Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 119, 13 February 1936, Page 10
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