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mckdeeseqml LONDOlf,^t..?o. Tho recent publicity;- given w vaiv ous parts of the world to, the worM| oldest man—Zaro Agha, a IV claimed to bo about 100, yoam g ngt—has had a sensational sequw Wit!t (be identiJlcfttdon of the. imbed body of a Turk—which, with, tvyo bullet, wounds in tin? head-, vffaffi, W-
covered, with a woman’s bathing-cap, was found in a field; neaV Carricly fergus (County ,that of Ahhicd Musa, variously described :is a doctor- attending Zaro Agha, and bis great-great-great-grandson, the Belfast police believe they have established a strange link with the murder of Robert Donald, tho 27-yeaf-old bank clerk, who was shot and bludgeoned in Glasgow on-,August IS, while endeavoring to prevent bank raiders absconding with £2OOO. ' 4gha' is at present with a travclfe' Circus and Musa,, formerly, stood
alongside him interpreting. A woman attached to the circus identified his photogra ]ilv. The police, believe t.lmt 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.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17588, 2 October 1931, Page 8
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