ACQUITTAL ORDERED
BOMB MURDER CHARGE
PSYCHIATRISTS’ EVIDENCE
SYDNEY, April 14
Mr. Justice Owen directed a jury to acquit Sydney Baden Powell Shannon, a slaughterman, aged 47, who pleaded not guilty to murdering a man and his wife 10 years ago by throwing a bomb into their bedroom His Honour said that three psychiatrists had believed Shannon was mad at the time he made the alleged confessions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22612, 15 April 1948, Page 5
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