The 32-year-old migrant, who was employed by a
chief chemist in the N.S.W. Mining Company's coal washing plant
at Lithgow, disappeared from the Littleton migrant hostel on
July 2. Security police took over the investigation at the
suggestion of senior police officials. Security police are
believed to
be working on two theories.
-That Toeroek- suicided,
-That, for political reasons, he was kidnapped and either
smuggled from the country or murdered.
The suicide theory was weakened by two clues found by Lithgow
police. The first was that Toeroek's front door key was still in
the lock when police went to his room the day after his
disappearance. The second is that Toeroek's wallet was placed in
his drawer, after police searched it.
Toeroek's parents live in Bechescaba, Hungary. They were
communicated with, but said they had heard nothing from their
son in the past two months, and could offer no reason for his
disappearance. Toeroek, a devout church goer and a man highly
respected by employers and fellow workers, had no known
political affiliation. A check has been made on all overseas
shipping and airlines in case he left the country under his own
name, but it has proved
Toeroek sold a house he was building at Kandos for £600, shortly
before he disappeared. Lithgow police were told Toeroek went to
Sydney on July 2
with two friends, to see a football match. When he returned to
the hostel he went upstairs to a neighbour and borrowed some
bread and butter.
The neighbours told police that about the time Toeroek would
have reached his front door, they heard a car drive
into the grounds of the
hostel.
The occupants of the car
called out to Toeroek. The neighbours said that when they
looked out their window soon after the car had gone.
They assumed Toeroek, had returned to his room. When they found
his key in the lock next morning, and could not find him, they
got in