A CANADIAN MURDER

Evening Star, Issue 17926, 23 March 1922, Page 6

A CANADIAN MURDER

CHARGE AGAINST FATHER DELORME. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, March 22. (Received March 23, at 9.20 a.m.) The Cormier’s Court at Montreal held Father Delorme to appear before the higher court. Dr Deronie, provincial antopisfc, in clos* ing the cession of the inquest, gave a demonstration, using a tailor’s dummy dressed in Raoul’s clothing, showing how the youth was shot. A doctor testified that the feathers found in Delorme’s automobile and others in a quilt around the victim’s head were similar. Ho said that efforts had been made to wash the bloodstains from Delorme’s car, and Ms handwriting was upon a package containing a watch belonging to Raoul which had been mailed to the detectives. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

[The authorities at Montreal arrested Father Adek.ird Delorme, a Roman Catholic priest, on a charge of murdering his half-brother, Raoul, a college student. It was stated that the priest obtained 25,000 dollars on a life insurance policy. The brother disappeared, and later was found dead. The policy and a will made the priest his brother’s heir.]