TWO ARRESTS MADE.
MELBOURNE TRUCK MURDER. (■United Press Association-Copyright.) MELBOURNE, November 29. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey, a truck driver, whose body was found buried at Ivinglake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Matthew Francis O’Keeffe, aged 37, a slaugterman, of North Melbourne. O’Keeffe was arrested in bed at midnight on Saturday, and McFarlane was detained at Beaufort, 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests followed the most intense and widespread investigation in the history of the Victorian police. Demsey was driving a truck carrying wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne, on October 11, when he disappeared. There was no further news of him or the truck till the truck was accidentally found by picnickers, hidden in dense hush at Ivinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1. The following day Demsey’s body was found buried in a sack near the truck. The police are making investigations in nearly every part of the State in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 43, 30 November 1937, Page 5
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