FOUR MEN FOR TRIAL
TRUCK-DRIVER'S DEATH
MELBOURNE, January 11
At the conclusion of an inquest into the death of John Thomas Demsey, truck-driver, whose body was. found in a sack, the Coroner returned a verdict that Demsey had been murdered.
The four men arrested, Matthew O'Keefe (37), Roy McFarlane (32), William Grahame (30), and Harold John Reeve (37), were committed for trial on February 15 on a charge ol murder. •
A message on November 3 stated:— The body of John Thomas Demsey, aged 39, driver of a transport truck which had been missing since the middle of October, was discovered yesterday in dense scrub about 36 miles north-east of Melbourne. It was in a sack buried only a few feet from the truck.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 9
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