THIRD ARREST.
RECENT VICTORIAN CREME. CHARGE OF MURDER PREFERRED MELBOURNE, December 6. William Grahame, an Englishman, who came to Australia recently, was charged at the city watchhouse with having, or on about 11th October, between Kyneton and Kinglake West, murdered John Thomas Dempsey. A cable from Melbourne on 29th November stated:—-Two men have been arrested on charges of the murder of John Thomas Dempsey, the truck-driver whose body was found buried at Kinglake West on 2nd November The arrested men are Roy McFarlane, aged 32, of Newmarket, and Francis 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 * the Victorian Police. Dempsey was driving a truck carrying wool valued at £3OO from Bendigo to Melbourne on 11th October, 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 Ist November On the following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. Dempsey had been shot three times at close quarters. The police have made investigations in nearly every part of the State, in an endeavour to trace the stolen wool.
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Wairarapa Age, 7 December 1937, Page 6
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