MURDER OF DRUMMER.
“ PLAYING INDIANS.”
VICTIM LEFT TO STARVE. I'rc-ss Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. Lance-Corporal Dearnley, of the First Leicester Regiment, has been sentenced to death for the murder,* of Drummer Ellis. Accused gave evidence that Ellis objected to his courting Miss Storey, and made offensive remarks. He decided to punish Ellis and persuaded him to play Indians and allow himself to be tied with a rope to a tree. Accused told Ellis he would return and release him, but he was prevented from returning till next day, and then did not think it worth while troubling about the matter.
The police gave evidence that accused’s .brother and mother were inmatea of asylums. —Aus. and'N.Z. Cable Assn.
(Dearnley was arrested at Aldershot on the charge of murdering Drummer Ellis on May 23rd. Ellis, who was in the same battalion as Dearnley, was concerned in a erown-and-anehor school and it was supposed he had been murdered for his money. His body was discovered in September hidden in a thicket.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 15048, 29 November 1923, Page 5
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