MURDER TRIAL
HOT GUILTY OH GROUND OF INSANITY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ADELAIDE, November 22. ■ (Received November 23, at 1 a.m.) The trial has concluded of Arthur Nelson Durrant, a farm employee, on a charge of murdering his employer, Hugh Forbes, and his wife and daughter, at Bugle Ranges. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity, but the court ordered Durrant to be- kejot in strict custody during the Governor s pleasure. The trial occupied nine days. [The bodies of Hugh Forbes, a farmer, aged 45, his wife, aged 40, and their sixteen-year-old daughter, Joyce, were found buried 10ft down in a manure heap at Forbes’s farm, five miles from Mount Barker, on September 30. All had been shot with a rifle. Arthur Durrant, aged 22, who was employed by Forbes, was arrested and sh.arged. yith. murdering His
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Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 16
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143MURDER TRIAL Evening Star, Issue 22194, 23 November 1935, Page 16
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