MURDER SUSPECTED
Body in Burnt Hay Rick (Received May 19, 9.40 p.m.) London, May 19. Scotland Yard was called in and early developments are expected in connection with the discovery of the charred body of Thomas Moss, aged 21. an Oxford undergraduate, in a burntout hay rick at Stadhainpton, 10 miles from Oxford. Police have ruled out suicide or accident, and are working on theories that Moss was murdered or knocked down by a car and the body taken to the rick, which was then set on lire, or that he was drugged and placed on the rick unconscious before the rick was set on fire. Police expressed the opinion that the rick was set on fire deliberately with combustible liquid, because the hay was damp and could not have caught lire accidentally.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 11
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133MURDER SUSPECTED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 199, 20 May 1936, Page 11
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