MELBOURNE TRUCK MURDER.
TWO MEN ARRESTED. Melbourne, Nov. 28. ' Tavo men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truck-driver whose body Avas found buried at Kinglake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Francis O’Keefe, aged 37_, of North Melbourne. O’Keefe was arrested in bed at midnight- on Saturday and McFarlane Avas detained a't Beaufort, 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests folloAved the most intense and Avidespread investigation in the history of the Victorian police. Demsev was driving a truck carrying avool, A’alued at £3OO, from Bendigo to Melbourne on October 11, when lie disappeared. There Avas no further neAvs of him or the truck till the truck Avas accidentally found by picnickers hidden in dense bush at Kinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne on November 1. The following day the body Avas found buried in a sack near the- truck. Police investigations Avere made in nearly every part of the State in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4868, 29 November 1937, Page 3
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174MELBOURNE TRUCK MURDER. Manawatu Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 4868, 29 November 1937, Page 3
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