John Trevor Kelly (1914 - 24 August 1939) was an Australian convicted murderer. He had a history of criminal behaviour in the Lismore district from about 1935, mainly involving cheque fraud (often associated with alcohol consumption). In September 1937, Kelly was convicted of the abduction of a young girl and served a sentence of about a year in a prison farm. In early February 1939, he was working as a farmhand at 'Hillcrest' farm near Tenterfield, where he brutally murdered Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, the sister of the farm's owner. Kelly was executed for the crime at Long Bay Penitentiary in August 1939. He was the last person to be judicially executed in the state of New South Wales. Biography Early years John Trevor Kelly was born in 1914 at Tenterfield, a regional township in north-east New South Wales (close to the border with Queensland). He was the son and youngest child of Michael Kelly and Johanna (née Larracy). John had an older sister, Maureen, born in June 1910 in Queensland. Soon after John's birth, the Kelly family moved to Lismore. The family lived at 71 Union-street in South Lismore, and from the early 1920s, John's father, M. A. ('Mick') Kelly, worked as a livestock agent for Barnes' Bacon Co. (based at Homebush Bay in Sydney). Kelly's older sister Maureen died at her parent's residence in Union-street, Lismore, on 3 March 1927, aged 17 years. A respectable young man John Trevor ('Jack') Kelly worked as a motor mechanic. In 1934, when he was aged about 20, Kelly was injured in a motor vehicle accident. In the early evening of 26 December 1934, Kelly was stopped by the police for driving a motor car without lights at Coraki, a small township near Lismore. Kelly told the policeman the headlights need to be fixed; he gave his name as 'John Stewart' and said his driver's license "was at home". After being dealt with by the police, Kelly got into the car, switched on the headlights and drove away. Subsequent enquiries revealed the driver's actual name was John Trevor Kelly. At the Coraki Police Court in February 1935, Kelly did not appear but sent a letter pleading guilty of the charges of driving without lights and giving a false name; he was fined two pounds (with eight shillings costs) for each offence. At about ten minutes after ten o'clock at night on 19 January