THE JINGELLIC MURDER
BATSON DECLARED INSANE. PROCEEDINGS WITHDRAWN. Press Association —By Telegraph.—Copyright, r SYDNEY, April 14... ■ Claud Batson, who was sentenced‘to, death for the murders at'JingeUic, hi* been officially declared insane. The criminal proceedings against him have consequently been withdrawn, and he will be confined in a. mental institution. , On February 11, while a picnic party from Jingellic was having lunch' a few miles from the township a. man suddenly appeared with a repeating rifle and opened fire. Ho fired 17 shots. Three men were wounded and two died. Batson, who committed the deed, was caught after a hunt which- lasted for five days.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19147, 15 April 1924, Page 7
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