MAIL TRAIN CRIME.
FURTHER CHARGES LAID. BRISBANE, April 20. Herbert Ivopet, on appearing in the Police Court to-day, was charged not only with the murder of Edward Speering, but also with the murder of Michael Francis Costello, and with the attempted unlawful killing of Thomas Edwin Boys on the Rockhampton mail train on April 2. Accused was remanded. At the Melbourne City Court Herbert Ivopet, aged 23, station hand, Pi-abla, Queensland, appeared on a charge of-having murdered Harold Edward Speering in the carriage of a mail train between Gympie and Brisbane on April 2. When arrested, the police stated, he was dressed in women’s clothes. Senior-Detective Sloan said Ivopet was arrested on a provisional warrant in Melbourne, He admitted that he had gone from Sydney on April 3 dressed as a woman. “It is alleged that on April 2 the dead body of Speering was found in his bunk in the carriage of a train on the GympneBrisbane line,” said Senior-Detective Sloan. “Another man, I rank Costello, was also found injured in his bunk on tho same train. He died shortly afteiward. Both men had received very serious injuries to the head.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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192MAIL TRAIN CRIME. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 119, 21 April 1936, Page 7
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