TRUCK MYSTERY
TWO MEN ARRESTED. MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men have been arrested and charged with the murder of John Thomas Demsey, the truck driver, whose body was found buried at King-lake West on November 2nd. The arrested men are Roy MeFarlene, 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 11th, when he disappeared. There was no further news of him or the truck till the truck was found accidentally by picnickers hidden in dense bush at Kinglake West, 42 miles from Melbourne, on November Ist. The following day the body was found buried in a sack near the truck. Police investigations were made in nearly every part of the State in an endeavor to trace the stolen wool. O ’Keefe and MeFarlane were charged to-day with murdering Demsey. They were remanded until December 7th, without bail.
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Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 33, 1 December 1937, Page 3
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