TRUCK MYSTERY: TWO MEN ARRESTED
(Received 10 a.m.)
MELBOURNE. November 28
Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truck driver, whose body was found buried in a sack at Kinglakc West on November
The arrested men arc Roy McFarlanc, 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 was detained at Beaufort. 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests followed the most intense and widespread investigations in the history of the Victorian police. The Crime. Dempsey was driving a truck carrying wool, valued at £3OO, from Bendigo to Melbourne, on November 11, when he disappeared. No further news of him or his truck was received until the truck was accidentally found by picnickers, hidden in dense bush at Kinglakc West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1.
The following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. The police investigations have covered nearly every part of the' Slate in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Northern Advocate, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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