HAY RICK TRAGEDY.
DISCOVERY OF STUDENT’S BODY.
SERIOUS CRIME SUSPECT BY SCOTLAND YARD.
SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT RULED OUT.
(Received Tuesday, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, May ID.
Scotland Yard has been called in and early developments are expected in connection with the discovery of the charred "body of Thomas Moss, aged twenty-one, an Oxford undergraduate, in a burnt-out hay rick at Stadhampton, ten miles from Oxford. The police have ruled out suicide or accident and are working on theories that Moss was murdered or was knocked down by a car and his body taken to the rick, which was then set on fire, or that he was drugged and dumped on the rick unconscious before the rick was set on fire. The police expressed the opinion that the rick was set on fire deliberately with a combustible liquid, because the hay was damp and could not have caught fire accidentally.
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Wairarapa Age, 20 May 1936, Page 5
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