TWO ARRESTS OVER TRUCK MYSTERY
VICTORIA’S MOST INTENSE POLICE SEARCH
MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey, the truck driver. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, 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 investigation in the history of the Victorian police. Demsey was driving a truck carrying Wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne, on October 11, when he disappeared. There was no further news of him or the truck till the truck was accidentally found by picnickers, hidden in dense bush at Kinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1. The following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. The police are making investigations in nearly every part of the state in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool. O’Keefe and McFarlande were charged with murdering Demsey; they were remanded until December 7 without bail.
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Southland Times, Issue 23370, 30 November 1937, Page 7
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