TRUSSED BODY FOUND

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26263, 7 November 1950, Page 7

TRUSSED BODY FOUND

(Rec. 8 p.m.) ADELAIDE, Nov. 6. The discovery of the trussed body ot an inter-State criminal, Charles Bray, aged 53 >in a shallow creek near the Mornhettville racecourse, has opened Adelaide’s most sensational underworld mystery in years. • Bray was a confederate of a notorious gambler Louis Zammltt, who was found shot dead in his bed on Friday. The police believe that Bray's murderers hurtled his body from a car white crossing a bridge over the creek early on Saturday morning. The body, which was wrapped in hessian, had bullet holes in 'the right temple and the left cheek. It was clad in pyjamas, shoes and socks. The police, who are conducting wide investigations in the underworld, believe that Bray and Zanimitt recently fell out and threatened each other with violence. They at first thought that Zammitt may have committed suicide, but they have inclined to the belief that Bray may have murdered Zaminitt and that Zammitt's friends may have killed Bray in revenge: Bray was suspected of being Involved in the 1942 massacre of three men whose bodies were found in a disused city betting shop which had been set alight.

A Pint of Beer.—After 10 hours’ defiance of police and firemen who were attempting to get him down from the top of a chimneystack 70ft above the ground level, a male patient of a mental home in Bedfordshire agreed to descend on the promise that he would be given a pint of beer.—London,. November