DIABOLICAL CRIME
MURDER OF A PRIVATE j DETECTIVE SYDNEY POLICE DISCOVERY (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received lltli May, 9.15 a.m.) SYDNEY', This Day. Believed to have been fiendishly murdered, the naked charred body of Frederick Jeffrey* a private detective, was found by the police in circumstances suggesting that he was the victim of a diabolical crime. Stripped of clothes, Jeffred was lying with his head inside a gas stove, with wires from an electric switch connected to his body. The head and upper part of the trunk were shockingly burnt.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 11 May 1929, Page 7
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