LATE NEWS
TRUCK MYSTERY" IN VICTORIA
Two Men Charged With Murder Of Driver INTENSE INVESTIGATION BY POLICE (Received November 29, 12.45 a.m.) Melbourne, November 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, truck driver, whose body was found- buried at Kinglake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, Newmarket, and Francis O’Keeffe, aged 37, North Melbourne. O’Keeffe was arrested in he’d at midnight on Saturday. 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. Dempsey 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 bush at Kinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1. The following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. Police investigations have been made in nearly every part of the State in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 55, 29 November 1937, Page 6
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