ENGLISH MYSTERY.
STUDENT’S CHARRED BODY. FOUND IN BURNED HAYRICK. WAS IT MURDER OR ACCIDENT? United Tress Assn. —Elf*'\ Tel. Copyright. LONDON, May 19. Scotland Yard has been called in and carlv developments are expected in connection with the discovery of the charred body of Mr Thomas Moss, aired 21. an Oxford undergraduate, in a burned-out hayrick at Stadliampton, to miles from Oxford. The police have ruled out suicide or accident and arc working on theories that Mr Moss was murdered or knocked down by a car. The body is thought lo have been taken lo the rick, which was then set cm fire. Either Dial or deceased was drugged and .lumped on the rick in an unconscious condition before the rick was burned. It is thought that the rick was set on fire deliberately, because Iho hay was damp and could not have been Liui-ued accidentally.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19890, 20 May 1936, Page 7
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146ENGLISH MYSTERY. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19890, 20 May 1936, Page 7
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