TRUCK MURDER MYSTERY

Evening Star, Issue 22818, 29 November 1937, Page 14

TRUCK MURDER MYSTERY

A FRESH DEVELOPMENT SLAUGHTERMAN ARRESTED Brest Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, November 28. A development in the truck mystery occurred on Saturday when the police, acting on private information, arrested Matthew Francis O’Keefe, aged 37, a slaughterman, of South Melbourne, on a charge of murdering John Dempsey, whose body was found in a sack at West Kingslako and the abandoned truck nearby. ANOTHER ARREST. MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truck driver. The arrested men are Roy M'Farlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Francis O’Keefe, 37, of North Melbourne. O’Keefo was arrested in bed at midnight on Saturday and M'Farlane 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 carrymg wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne, on October 11, when he disappeared. TJiQre 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. The police are making investigations in nearly every part of the State in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.