ANOTHER ARREST.
MURDER CHARGES AGAINST TWO MEN. WIDESPREAD INVESTIGATIONS BY POLICE. (Received TH* Day, 0.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men have been arrested on' charges of the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truek-driver whose body was found buried at Kinglake West on November 2. The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket and Frances O’Keeffe, of North Meadows. O’Keeffe was arrested in bed at midnight on Saturday. McFarlane was detained at Beaufort, 100 miles from Melbourne. The arrests followed on a most intense and widespread investigation by th® t Victorian Police. Dempsey 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 of the truck till the truck was accidentally found by picnickers in dense bush at Kinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November 1. On the following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. The police have made investigations on nearly every part of the State 'in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Wairarapa Age, 29 November 1937, Page 5
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