LIFE IMPRISONMENT.
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY. ADELAIDE, February 11. Arthur Nelson Durrant, aged 22, who was arrested on September 30 and charged with having murdered his employer, Mr. Hugh Forbes, a farmer, aged 45, Mrs. Forbes, aged 40, and their daughter Joyce, aged 16 (who were found buried in a manure heap on Forbes’s farm), wits sentenced to imprisonment for life with hard labour. Durrant had pleaded guilty to manslaughter when charged with having murdered Joyce Forbes. Durrant was found not guilty on the ground of insanity when charged some weeks ago with having murdered Mr. Hugh Forbes, father of Joyce.
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Wairarapa Age, 13 February 1936, Page 7
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100LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Wairarapa Age, 13 February 1936, Page 7
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