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where the couple had been sitting when he approached them. He gave no details of the encounter, not mentioning the mask or the gun or the confrontation with Frank Wilkinson.
    The cars then headed for Bankstown and Moorebank. Moxley pointed out where he had attempted to buy petrol and then conducted the police to the empty house on Illawarra Road. He showed them how ‘we’ – meaning himself and his still-unnamed accomplice – had taken the couple and put the woman in the house and the man in an adjoining shed. A search was made for footprints but none were found.
    MacKay then told Moxley he'd be shown where the bodies had been found. As the car moved off, Moxley wrote something on a piece of paper but his handwriting was shaky and MacKay could not decipher it. When the car stopped MacKay asked Moxley what he had written. Moxley said, ‘Snowy Mumby.’
    â€˜Just take things easy for a while,’ MacKay said.
    They reached the place where Frank Wilkinson had been buried and where the signs of the grave were still plainly evident. Moxley made no comment. The police noticed that a number of newspaper reporters had begun to follow them. MacKay confronted them, telling them they were interfering with a police investigation and could be charged. The reporters backed off a little but continued to hang around, forcing MacKay to call off the operation.

    MacKay, although prompting with an initial question, told Moxley that Detective Inspector Walsh would be in charge of his case and that he should tell him about Mumby. Detective Godwin made a shorthand record of their conversation.
    Moxley: He is known as Snowy Mumby.
    MacKay: What sort of a fellow is he?
    Moxley: About 30 years old, about 5ft. 8 or 9in. high, slim to medium build, fair hair brushed back, normal crop, blue or grey eyes, dressed in blue or pepper and salt clothing. He has been in the military and has a military crime history. I knew him in the military. I never met him in gaol. He is a great bloke with sheilas. I think his work is robbing men when they are drunk, but I never knew him to break and enter. I have seen him two or three times. I will show you where he can be found. There is a dumping house alongside Clays in Elizabeth Street – West Street – Brisbane Street. You remember May's billiard saloon, he used to go there; he used to knock about there four or five years ago. There used to be a terrible good billiard player who used to go in there. He was known as Bill. He used to live in that street. Is May still keeping that baker's shop in Darlinghurst? If he is still living in Darlinghurst he is his mate. I know he is always hanging around sheilas.
    Walsh: Did he go with you to Burwood?
    Moxley: We both came out together. We both walked out to Burwood together.
    Walsh: At what time?
    Moxley does not answer.
    Walsh: Is he clean shaven?
    Moxley: Yes, he was clean shaven, fair.
    Walsh: Any scars or marks?
    Moxley: No.
    Walsh: Did he have a gun?
    Moxley: No, he has an impediment in his speech, a kind of hesitation. He has been knuckling around with women all his life.
    Walsh: Has he got a woman at all now?
    Moxley: He is always knuckling around with women.
    Walsh: What was he in the military?
    Moxley: He went to Egypt first and came back and went away with the 13 th General Reinforcement, GSB. I know his name as Mumby.

    Modern investigators have developed a system known as statement analysis to examine testimonies, probing for inconsistencies and other indicators of untruthfulness. This is scarcely necessary in Moxley's case – the flaws and devices are obvious: ‘Snowy’, the name Moxley assigned to Mumby, was in fact a nickname frequently given to him; the physical description fits fairly closely Moxley's own characteristics; the good billiard player is ‘Bill’, the name Moxley was most known by. He also referred to a speech defect, a hesitancy, which was again a characteristic of Moxley himself. It is