CHARGE OF MURDER
LABOURER’S REPORTED CONFESSION SYDNEY, October 16. “I done that job. Something went wrong with my head, and I done it,” •is what Mervyn Garvie, labourer, aged 39, is alleged to have told DetectiveSergeant J. V. Ramus concerning the death of Cecil John Kelly and the assault on Miss Mavis Crompton, near Bulli, on August 28. At the inquest to-day, DetectiveSergeant Ramus said that Garvie had confessed that he picked up an iron bolt, when walking along the beach. He saw a small car, and a man got out of it. He struck the man twice and thought he struck the girl. He admitted the girl’s allegations of what occurred later. He threw the bolt into the sea off the pier. Witness said that Garvie could not write, but could read a little. The statement was taken by detectives. Garvie was committed for trial by j the coroner on a charge of murdering Kelly. Bail was refused.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 8
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