TOKIRIMA MURDER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2127, 8 December 1920, Page 12

TOKIRIMA MURDER.

ACCUSED DECLARED INSANE. Press Association. HAMILTON, December 7. At the Supreme Court to-day, William Anderson was charged with tho murder of Frederick Henry Telfer, at Tokirima, on October 14. When the case was called, tho Crown Solicitor intimated that the case for the Crown would be that prisoner was insane, and asked that the jury should be direct od by the Chief Justice to

bring in a veedict of not guilty, on the grounds of insanity. James Loft and Herbert Hedley Loft gave evidence as to the shooting on the lines of the evidence given in the Lower Court, and Dr Murray, in charge of Mount Eden Gaol Hospital, and Dr Tysar, Medical Superintendent at Avondale, stated that prisoner waR suffering from a form of insanity; This condition was not merely temporary, but of a permanent nature. He was under the impression that ho was being constantly persecuted. Tho jury, withotit retiring, returned a verdict of not guilty, on the grounds of insanity, and prisoner was committed to Mount Eden Gaol Hospital, there to await instructions from the Minister.