In the early morning hours of January 1st 1963 two youths decided
to go hunting for golf balls on the outskirts of their local golf
course. This was at Chatswood Golf Links on the eastern bank of the
Lane Cove River and very near what is now known as Fuller's Bridge.
What they found however was to set off one of the greatest
mysteries in the annals of Australian crime. The boys discovered a
male human body, lying face down just off the track by the river.
They raised the alarm and when the police arrived to inspect the
scene they were presented with some rather mystifying discoveries.
The body was lying face down and the clothes had been removed.
However the clothes had then been placed perfectly on top of the
body as if dressing a cut out doll. Even the sleeves and the
trouser legs had been bent to follow the the lines of the splayed
arms and legs. Later they found another body, this time female,
about 13 metres further down the track and this was also neatly
covered as if someone had seen them lying there and covered them up
with the clothing and cardboard. There was no sign of struggle or
violence however later tests of the surrounding vegetation
suggested that the victims had been sick, either from over drinking
(it was new years eve) or by poisoning???.
The bodies were later identified as those of Dr Gilbert Bogle,
and Mrs Margaret Chandler and the mystery of their deaths captured
the imagination of just about every soul living in Sydney at the
time. Speculation was rife, stories of motive such as greed,
adultery, espionage and even alien life forms abounded. For months
the mystery dominated the press and radio, but to this day the
police are no closer to solving the riddle of how these two
socialites actualy died and who placed their clothes on top of the
bodies.
That was almost 40 years ago. Today the area is still a track to
the golf course but the actual location of the bodies required
quite a bit of research to find. After doing this research I
believe we have placed this cache as close as possible to the final
resting place of Dr Bogle. The cache is fairly small but should be
easy to find. While you are there, try to imagine the scene and
what could have taken place here all those years ago.
Some more info about the affair can be found at The Bogle Chandler Affair Page.
Although some of the details on this site can be of disputed
accuracy, it gives a good summary and makes fascinating
reading..
Have fun finding the Bogle-Chandler Mystery Cache.
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