TRUCK MURDER
TWO MEN ARRESTED. (Australian Press Association). MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey, truck driver, whose body, which was found buried at Kinglake West on November 2.
The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, I 32, Newmarket; and Francis O’Keeffe, 37, North Melbourne. O’Keeffe was arrested in ibed At midnight on Saturday. McFarlane was detained at Beaufort, 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests followed the most intense and widespread investigation in the history of the Victorian ,police. Demsey was driving a truck carrying wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne on October 11, when he disappeared. There* 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.
On the following day the. body was found buried in a sack near the truck. Police investigations were made in nearly every part of the State in the endear vour to trace the stolen wool.
O’Keeffe and McFarland, who were arrested at the week-end, were charged with murdering Demsey (not Dempsey). They were remanded until December 7 ■, without bail.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1937, Page 5
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