UNABLE TO PLEAD.
ABRUPT ENDING OF A MURDER TRIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ' Melbourne, October 22. The trial of the boy Charles Freeman for the murder at Warparilla of a boy named John Anderson has oome to an abrupt end. The jury decided that Freeman was unable to plead; Ho was ordered to bo detained in gaol during tho Governor's pleasure. Freeman, who is aged fourteen years, is almost deaf and dumb, and is mentally deficient.' Anderson was fifteen .years of age. When arrested, Freeman indicated that he, Anderson and a third boy had been bird-nesting, and that the last-named deliberately shot Anderson while lie wa3 up a tree, and. then severed tho head from the body. . At the inquest a schoolboy gavo evidence that. Freeman and Anderson had had a fight at school a year ago. and that Freeman had then mado signs indicating that lie would shoot Anderson and cut his throat.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1887, 23 October 1913, Page 7
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153UNABLE TO PLEAD. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1887, 23 October 1913, Page 7
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