Guilty Of Murdering New Zealander
Received , Tuesday, 10.40. a.m. DUBLIN, March 15. A jury in the Criminal Gourt found Lieuteiiant Henry Fitzsimon Cotton, aged' 25, guilty but insane on a charge of. murdering, on January 24, a Dubliner, Robert Robinson, and a former pilot ofjdie Royal New Zealand Air Force", Ronald Ernest Brain, of Auckland, at the home of two girls v/horn Braln and Robinson had taken hoipe from a dance. * Brain and Robinson w.ere in the living room at the girls' hqme while- the girls, who were' sisters, were making tea in the kitchen.' Robinson answered a knockbn the living room door. A man entered and shot Robinson through the heart. Brain, ' when he ran to Robinson's assistance, received a fatal wound. ' * Brain, who was in business in London, was holidaying in Eire.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 March 1948, Page 5
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