GUILTY BUT INSANE
TRIPLE MURDERER CONSTABLES COMMENDED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received November 26, noon.) ■ LONDON, Nov. 25. James Collins, 26, a. private in the Butt's Regiment, was found guilty of murder, but insane. The jury commended the bravery of Constables Chapman and Pearce, and said it was one of the pluckiest things of which they had ever heard. Collins was dramatically arrested following the shooting of two women and a girl at King’s Wood, Kent, in June last. When challenged by tlio police, Collins fired at them, but the two constables persisted in the chase and finally arrested him despite threats of death. *
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 5
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