MYSTERY DEATH
BURNED BODY IN HAY RICK COMBUSTIBLE ’LIQUID USED (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Received Mav 19. 11 -p.m.) LONDON. May 19. Scotland Yard lias been called in and early developments are- expected in connection with' the discovery of tho charred 1 body of Thomas Moss, aged 21, an Oxford undergraduate; in a burnt-out bay rick a) Stadhamptoii, ten inJes, from Oxford. The police have ruled 'out suicide or accident and are working on theories that! Moss was murdered or knocked down by a/ ear an tlie body taken to tire r’ck which was- then set on fire, or that lie was drugged and clumped oni the rick -unconscious before the, rick was set on fire.
The police expressed the opinion, that the rick was set- on fire deliberately with a- '-combustible liquid because the hay was' damn and conkl nor- have caught fire accidentally.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12865, 20 May 1936, Page 5
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