A DRUMMER’S MURDER
SENTENCE OF DEATH ON A LANCE-CORPORAL (Rec. November 28. 5.5 p.m.) London, November 27. Lance-Corporal Dearnley, of the First Leicester Regiment, ha? been sentenced to death for. the murder of Drummer Ellis. Accused gave evidence that Ellis objected to his courting Aliss Storay and made offensive remarks. He decided to punish the deceased and persuaded him to play Indians and allow himself to be tied with a rope to a tree. Accused told Ellis he would return and release him. hut he was prevented from returning till next day, and then did not think it worth while troubling about the matter. The police gave evidence that accused’s brother and mother were inmates of asylums.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
[Dearnley was arrested Aidershot on the charge of murdering Drummer Ellis on Afar 23. Ellis, who was in the same battalion as Dearnley, wns concerned in a crown-and-ancbpr school, and it was supposed he had bean murdered for his money. His body was discovered in September hidden in a thicket.]
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 55, 29 November 1923, Page 6
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