AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Grey River Argus, 14 May 1929, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

MELBOURNE DETECTIVE At ORDERED. (Australian & N.Z. Cable A<sn.) MELBBOL’RNE, Alay 12. Believed tu have been fiendishly murdeired the naked charred body o( Frederick. Jeffrey, private detective, was found by the police in circumstances suggesting tha.t he was tho victim of a diabolical ciime.

Stripped of clothes Jeffrey waa lying with his head inside a gas stove. Wires from an electric switch wer • connected to the body. The head and uppeir part of the trunk was shockingly burnt. OVER £3OOO STOLEN. SYDNEY, May 13. Thieves broke into Film House m the city yesterday and rifled the stropgroom, they stole between £3OOO and £5OOO the property of the Union Theatres.

The robbers cut through two iron doors with a hacksaw All Saturday’s takings of thc principal theatre* in Ihe city were locked in steel locker.' , which the thieves methodically forced open. ANDERSON AND HITCHCOCK. SYDNEY, Alay 10. Air Abbott Minister of Northern Territories, announces that a Thorny croft truck, of the rigid six-wheeled-variety is leaving Oodnadatta to make an eighty mile dash to the scene of the Kookaburra to bring back the bodies of Anderson and Hitchcock. The truck will have the terrible tatfk of traversing the scrub, for which it is specially suited. It will take six hundred gallons of water, and be directed by Air Force aeroplanes The truck is performing the task free of all cost. SOUTHERN CROSS DESCENT. SYDNEY, May 13. Interviewed concerning the Drysdale Mission signal, Kingsford Smith said: ‘We attached the message to a rocket torch and flew fifty feet over the mission station. We thought we saw it picked up by two people re sembTJng! aborigines oine jof ' whom pointed south-west. Thc other threw white objects like pieces of wood iw the same direction It is just possible we were mistaken, and that m scad of pointing to the ground, the) were inviting us to land”