STUDENT'S DEATH
CHARRED BODY FOUND SCOTLAND YARD CALLED IN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 19. Scotland Yard has been called in and early developments are expected in connection with the discovery of the charred body of Thomas Moss, aged 21, an Oxford under-gradu-ate, in a burnt-out hay rick at Stadham'pton, 10 miles from Oxford. The police have ruled out suicide or accident, and are working on the theories that Moss was murdered or knocked down by a car and the bodytaken to the tick, which was then set on fire, or he was drugged and dumped on the rick unconscious before the rick was set on fire. The police expressed the opinion that the rick was set on fire deliberately w-ith combustible liquid, because the hay was damp and could not have caught fire accidentally.
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Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 9
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135STUDENT'S DEATH Evening Star, Issue 22343, 20 May 1936, Page 9
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