TWO MEN ARRESTED.
ON MURDER CHARGE, VICTORIAN INVESTIGATION. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey, the truck-driver whose body was found buried at Kinglake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Francis O’Keeffe, aged 37, of North Melbourne. O’Keeffe was arrested in bed at midnight on Saturday and MeFarlane 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 lie 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. 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 an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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