MURDER OF A SOLDIER.
ARREST 'OF A COMRADE.
, ROBBERY THE MOTIVE,
Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received October 3, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, October 2,
A youthful Lance-Corporal named Gearnley, of the First Leicester Regiment, has been arrested at Aldershot, on a charge of murdering a drummer, named Ellis, of the same battalion on May 23. The body was recently discovered hidden in a thicket. The drummer was concerned in a “crown and anchor” school, and apparently was murdered for the money he'S:arried.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15356, 3 October 1923, Page 5
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