BRAVERY PRAISED
SOLDIER GUILTY OF MURDER BUT INSANE London, November 25. James Thomas Collins, 26, a private in the 2nd Battalion of "The Buffs" (East Kent Regiment), was to-day found guilty of the murder of two women and a girl in a wood near Ashford. He was declared to be in•sane. The jury commended the bravery of Police-Constable Chapman, who aided in the search and capture of the man in the forest. The judge said his action was one of the pluckiest things he had ever known.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 5
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87BRAVERY PRAISED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 391, 28 November 1932, Page 5
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