FIENDISH ACT
DETECT! Y E A TURD FRED
A SHOCKING CRIME.
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this day at 8.30- a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 11.
Believed to have been fiendishly murdered, the naked, charred body of Frederick Jeffery, a private detective. was found 'by the police m chcumstimces suggesting he was the victim of a diabolical crime. Stripped of clothes, Jeffery "was mg with his head inside a gas stove and wires from an electric switch connected to the body. The head and upper .part of the trunk was shockingly burnt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1929, Page 5
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