MURDERS IN IRELAND

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 October 1931, Page 9

MURDERS IN IRELAND

STRANGE FATE OF TURK.

LONDON, September 25

The recent publicity given in various parts of the world to the world’s oldest man —Zaro Agha, a Turk, who is claimed to bo about 160 years of age—has had a sensational sequel in Ireland.

With the identification of the naked body of a Turk —which, with two bullet wounds in the head, which was covered with a woman’s bathing cap, was found in a field near Carrickfergus (County Antrim) —as that, of Ahmed Musa, variously described as a doctor attending Zaro Agha, and his great-great-great-grandson, tho Belfast police believe they have established a strange link with the murder of Robert Donald, the 27-year-old bank clerk, who was shot and bludgeoned in Glasgow on August 12, while endeavouring to prevent bank raiders absconding with £2OOO.

Agha is at present with a travelling circus and Musa formerly stood alongside him interpreting. A woman attached to the circus identified his photograph. The police believe that Musa, who had lived in America, was associated with a well-known American gunman and others who were in Glasgow on the day Donald was murdered, and that the gangsters shot Musa in Belfast becaused he knew too much, stripped off his clothing, and covered the head wounds -with a bathing-cap to prevent the blood staining the motor car in which the body was taken into the countrj’ and dumped.