BRUTAL MURDER
KILLED WITH AXE BROTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED EXECUTION OF ASSAILANT <.Unft»4 Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 2i, 3.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 24 John Trevor Kelly was executed this morning for the murder of Constance Sommerlad. On February 5 the brutal murder of a prominent young woman and grave injuries to her brother stirred the northern districts of New South Wales. The dead woman was Miss Constance Sommerlad (36;. She kept house for her brother, Eric Sommerlad (26;, a farmer, four miles from renterfield. Miss Constance apparently was attacked with an axe while in bed, her head being terribly injured. Her brother was similarly assailed and was found unconscious. Miss Constance Sommerlad was a niece of Mr E. C. Sommerlad, a member of Parliament and manager of the Country Press Association, New South Wales.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20891, 24 August 1939, Page 10
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