MURDERS IN IRELAND

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 258, 9 October 1931, Page 3

MURDERS IN IRELAND

STRANGE FATE OF TURK LONDON, Sept. 25. 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 yeafs of age—has had a sensational sequel in Ireland. With the identification of the naked body of a Turk—whiph, 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 Agha, 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 - bank , clerk, Who .was shot and bludgeoned in Glasgow on August 12, while endeavouring to prevent bank raiders absconding with £2OOO.

Agha is at present with a travelling circiis 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 motorcar in which the body was taken into the country and dumped.