NOT GUILTY VERDICT
FINDING OF INSANITY
ADELAIDE MURDER CHARGE
(Received November 23, 9 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The trial has concluded of Arthur Nelson Durrant, aged 22, a farm employee, on a charge of murdering his employer, Hugh Forbes, his wife, and their daughter at Bugle Ranges. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity, but the Court ordered Durrant to be kept in strict custody, during the Governor's pleasure. The trial occupied nine days. The bodies of Hugh Forbes, his wife, and then- 16-year-old daughter Joyce were found buried ten feet below a manure heap on Forbes's farm five miles from Mount Barker on September 30.- The family had been missing for some days. All had been shot with a rifle.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11
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127NOT GUILTY VERDICT Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11
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