MCKAY MYSTERY
INVESTIGATIONS BY POLICE IN SYDNEY INSURANCES INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY. MEDICAL MAN INTERVIEWED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 3. Detectives here investigating the Mr Gordon McKay mystery have ascertained that insurance policies in Australia on Mr McKay’s life were recently substantially increased. The policies are spread over several companies, the largest being £26,000 in the Mutual Life and Citizens Company. Mr McKay’s son, who lives at Burwood suburb, declared in an interview' today that the family was greatly distressed by the exhumation carried out by the New Zealand police and the attendant publicity given to the case. He added: “Our fervent hope is that father is still alive.”
The “Sun” newspaper reports the prosecution in the Police Court today of a medical practitioner, who was charged with having driven a car while intoxicated. His solicitor informed the Court that the doctor had been interviewed by the police concerning a “man who was burned to death in New Zealand,” and he might have to go to New Zealand to give evidence. The magistrate, with the consent of the police, granted an adjournment till March 31.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1939, Page 5
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