CHARGED WITH MURDER OF CLERGYMAN
* • MELBOURNE, February 29. Edward Cornelius, who appeared on remand, was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered the Rev. Harold Laceby Cecil, aged 59, vicar of St. Saviour’s Church of England, Collingwood. (After an early morning raid on a house in East Melbourne on February 13 Edward Cornelius, aged 29, was arrested and charged with having, on December 13, murdered the Rev. Harold Cecil, Cornelius was remanded, ban not being allowed. A detective stated that two watches had been stolen when Cecil was murdered. A few days later the watches had been found in East Melbourne. The detective alleged that Cornelius, when arrested, made certain admissions.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21721, 2 March 1936, Page 19
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