MURDER CHARGE
MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL (Unite! Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MELBOURNE, 9th January A finding that Luigi Marches! (lied from injuries feloniously and unlawfully inflicted by Giacomo Tarca was returned by the coroner after inquiring into the disappearance of Marchcsi. Tarca was committed for trial on a charge of murder. • j The story of a fight in the bush over wages during which he hit Marchesi on the head with a piece of wood and subsequently burned the body was contained ip a statement alleged to have been made by Tarca, who, however, was alleged to have made a later statement in which he declared that four Italians living on Marehesi’s farm had killed Marchesi.
A cable received on sth December stated that fears that Luigi Marchesi, aged 00, a farmer, of Lilydale, 25 miles
from Melbourne, who had been missing since 18th November, had been murdered, were confirmed when his body was found under a wood Heap. The head was apparently smashed with a spade. Marchesi was reputed to have had a large sum of money hoarded.in the 'house.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 7
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181MURDER CHARGE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 7
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