MONTREAL MURDER TRIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18512, 24 March 1922, Page 5

MONTREAL MURDER TRIAL

CHARGE AGAINST ROMAN CATHOLIO PRIEST. Preat Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. OTTAWA, March 22. The Coroner’s Court at Montreal held Father Delorme to ip pear before the .Higher Court. Dr Derome, provincial autopist, in closing the session 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. He said that efforts had been made to wash the bloodstains'from Delorme’s car. and his handwriting was upon a package containing a watch belonging to Raoul which had been mailed to the detectives.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Father Adelaird Delorme, a Roman Catholic priest, was arrested 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.]