LABOURER'S FATE
BODY FOUND IN CREEK BULLET WOUND IN HEAD LEGS AND ARMS BOUND, POLICE DETAIN TWO MEN By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received January 14, 9.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Jan. 14 A tragic affair is reported from Tallarook, 56 miles north of Melbourne. James Albert Boss, aged 23, labourer, for whom 70 residents and policemen have been searching since his disappearance on Friday, was found dead to-day in a creek. There was a bullet wound behind Boss' right ear, his legs and arms were bound and a rock was tied to his wrists.
Subsequently the police detained two men.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22008, 15 January 1935, Page 9
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