MINISTER MURDERED
BODY IN KITCHEN
HEAD BATTERED IN
MELBOURNE, December 12.
When the members of the vestry of St. Saviour's Church, Filzroy, an industrial suburb of Melbourne, assembled lor a meeting tonight, the minister, the Rev. Laceby Cecil, was missing. The members, on investigation, found the minister's dead body in the kitchen of the vicarage with his head battered in.
• No weapon was found, but near the body was a basin of water in which the intruder apparently washed his hands.
It is understood that several robberies have occurred in the premises recently.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 11
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