MURDERS IN IRELAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 October 1931, Page 2

MURDERS IN IRELAND

‘ STRANGE FATE OF TURK LONDON, 25th September. The recent publicity given in various parts of the world to the world’s oldest man—Zaro Agha, a Turk, who is claimed to be about 160 years of age—has had a sensational sequel in Ireland. With the identification of the naked body of a Turk—which, with two bullet wounds in the head; which was covered with a woman’s-bathing-cap, was found in a field near Carrickfergus (County Antrim')—as that-of Ahmed Musa, variously 'described as a doctor attending Zaro A glia, and his great-great-great-grandson, the Belfast- police believe they have established a strange link with the murder of Robert Donald, the 27-year-old hank clerk, who was shot, and bludgeoned in Glasgow on 12th August, while endeavouring to prevent hank raiders absconding with £2OOO. Agha is at present with a travelling circus and Musa formerly stood alongside him interpreting. A woman attached to the circus identified his photograph. The police believe that Musa, who had lived in America, was associated with a well-known American gunman and others who were in Glasgow on the day Donald was murdered, and that the gangsters shot Musa in Belfast because he knew too much, stripped off his clothing, and covered the head wounds with a bathing-cap to prevent the blood staining the motor car in which -the body was taken into the country and dumped.