CLERGYMAN MURDERED
BATTERED TO DEATH. BODY FOUND IN VICARAGE. POLICE SEAI! 111 ALL NIGHT. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Dec. 13. 3 p.m.) MELBOURNE, Deo. 13. The police searched all night murderer of Rev. Harold Cecil (59), single, who was found battered to death in the vicarage at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, Collingwood, last nightThe hunt was continued to-day. Detectives are confident of an early development. A st.rons theory is that Mr Cecil was slain by a thief. Mr Cecil is widely mourned in the parish, where he did much work for the poor.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19758, 13 December 1935, Page 8
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