SENTENCED TO DEATH
MS. MAN WHO KILLED WIPE INSANITY PLE A FAILS SYDNEY, March 2 . In the Criminal Court to-day; Percival Henry Thomson, aged 53, a farmer, was" found guilty of murdering his wife at Parramatta and was sentenced to death. Much evidence was given on behalf of the defence that Thomson, who was a worried man suffering from melancholia, murdered his wife, as well as his mother-in-law, while temporarily insane. ' MURDER OF VICAR CORNELIUS POUND GUILTY MELBOURNE, March 20. Edward Cornelius, aged 29' yca"fs, found guilty of murdering the Rev. Harold Laceby Cecil, at-St. Saviour's vicarage,- Fitzroy, on December 12, was sentenced to death;* SLAYER OF GIRL DATE FOR EXECUTION MELBOURNE, March 26. Arnold Sodeman, aged 35 years, who was convicted of mnrdering a girl by strangulation, and admitted killing three others, -will lie hanged on April G. The Court of Criminal Appeal, on March C dismissed an appeal against the death sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 5
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